THE STORY BEHIND THE HYMNS
THE STORY BEHIND "MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE"
“My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” is a quiet yet deeply resolute hymn, one that speaks not with dramatic flourish, but with calm assurance. It was written in 1885 by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt, an American hymn writer whose life was marked by physical suffering but sustained by an unshakable trust in Christ.
Eliza Hewitt spent much of her life battling illness after a severe spinal injury in her youth. Confined often to her home, she turned her pain into poetry and hymn writing, producing texts that reflected a faith refined by hardship rather than shaken by it. “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” emerged from this personal journey, a testimony of settled confidence in Jesus alone.
Unlike hymns that emphasize human effort, doctrinal arguments, or emotional striving, this hymn is strikingly simple in its message: faith does not rest on feelings, works, or even intellectual certainty, but solely on Christ and His finished work. Lines such as “I trust the ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead” echo the heart of the gospel, salvation secured not by what we do, but by what Christ has already done.
The hymn became closely associated with evangelical revivals and gospel meetings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its clear, confessional tone made it especially meaningful during altar calls and moments of personal consecration, where believers were invited to abandon self-reliance and rest fully in Christ.
Set to the tune “Lidie H. Edmunds” by James L. Hewitt (Eliza’s brother), the music complements the text’s serenity, gentle, steady, and unwavering, much like the faith it proclaims.
Over time, “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” has endured as a hymn of assurance. It is often sung during communion services, moments of reflection, and times when believers need to be reminded that faith ultimately finds its peace not in changing circumstances, but in an unchanging Savior.
In every generation, the hymn continues to whisper the same truth:
faith finds rest when it finds Christ.
THE STORY BEHIND "MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE"
“My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” is a quiet yet deeply resolute hymn, one that speaks not with dramatic flourish, but with calm assurance. It was written in 1885 by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt, an American hymn writer whose life was marked by physical suffering but sustained by an unshakable trust in Christ.
Eliza Hewitt spent much of her life battling illness after a severe spinal injury in her youth. Confined often to her home, she turned her pain into poetry and hymn writing, producing texts that reflected a faith refined by hardship rather than shaken by it. “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” emerged from this personal journey, a testimony of settled confidence in Jesus alone.
Unlike hymns that emphasize human effort, doctrinal arguments, or emotional striving, this hymn is strikingly simple in its message: faith does not rest on feelings, works, or even intellectual certainty, but solely on Christ and His finished work. Lines such as “I trust the ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead” echo the heart of the gospel, salvation secured not by what we do, but by what Christ has already done.
The hymn became closely associated with evangelical revivals and gospel meetings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its clear, confessional tone made it especially meaningful during altar calls and moments of personal consecration, where believers were invited to abandon self-reliance and rest fully in Christ.
Set to the tune “Lidie H. Edmunds” by James L. Hewitt (Eliza’s brother), the music complements the text’s serenity, gentle, steady, and unwavering, much like the faith it proclaims.
Over time, “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” has endured as a hymn of assurance. It is often sung during communion services, moments of reflection, and times when believers need to be reminded that faith ultimately finds its peace not in changing circumstances, but in an unchanging Savior.
In every generation, the hymn continues to whisper the same truth:
faith finds rest when it finds Christ.
THE STORY BEHIND THE HYMNS
THE STORY BEHIND "MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE" 🎶
“My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” is a quiet yet deeply resolute hymn, one that speaks not with dramatic flourish, but with calm assurance. It was written in 1885 by Eliza Edmunds Hewitt, an American hymn writer whose life was marked by physical suffering but sustained by an unshakable trust in Christ.
Eliza Hewitt spent much of her life battling illness after a severe spinal injury in her youth. Confined often to her home, she turned her pain into poetry and hymn writing, producing texts that reflected a faith refined by hardship rather than shaken by it. “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” emerged from this personal journey, a testimony of settled confidence in Jesus alone.
Unlike hymns that emphasize human effort, doctrinal arguments, or emotional striving, this hymn is strikingly simple in its message: faith does not rest on feelings, works, or even intellectual certainty, but solely on Christ and His finished work. Lines such as “I trust the ever-living One, His wounds for me shall plead” echo the heart of the gospel, salvation secured not by what we do, but by what Christ has already done.
The hymn became closely associated with evangelical revivals and gospel meetings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its clear, confessional tone made it especially meaningful during altar calls and moments of personal consecration, where believers were invited to abandon self-reliance and rest fully in Christ.
Set to the tune “Lidie H. Edmunds” by James L. Hewitt (Eliza’s brother), the music complements the text’s serenity, gentle, steady, and unwavering, much like the faith it proclaims.
Over time, “My Faith Has Found a Resting Place” has endured as a hymn of assurance. It is often sung during communion services, moments of reflection, and times when believers need to be reminded that faith ultimately finds its peace not in changing circumstances, but in an unchanging Savior.
In every generation, the hymn continues to whisper the same truth:
faith finds rest when it finds Christ.
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