Here is today’s sermon preached during Matins in the chapel of St.Timothy at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Tshwane in outline:  1Pt5,1-4 Matins 2017and to listen to: 

And here is the hymn “I walk in danger all the way”  (Hans Adolf Brorson 1694-1764 translated by Ditlef G. Ristad 1863-1938) as sung in Martin Luther Chapel at Martin Luther College, New Ulm (WELS):

1. I walk in danger all the way.
   The thought shall never leave me
   That Satan, who has marked his prey,
   Is plotting to deceive me.
   This foe with hidden snares
   May seize me unawares
   If I should fail to watch and pray.
   I walk in danger al the way.
2. I pass through trials all the way,
   With sin and ills contending;
   In patience I must bear each day
   The cross of God’s own sending.
   When in adversity
   I know not where to flee,
   When storms of woe my soul dismay,
   I pass through trials all the way.
3. And death pursues me all the way,
   Nowhere I rest securely;
   He comes by night, he come by day,
   He takes his prey most surely.
   A failing breath, and I
   In death’s strong grasp may lie
   To face eternity today
   As death pursues me all the way.
4. I walk with angels all the way,
   They shield me and befriend me;
   All Satan’s power is held at bay
   When heavenly hosts attend me;
   They are my sure defense,
   All fear and sorrow, hence!
   Unharmed by foes, do what they may,
   I walk with angels all the way.
5. I walk with Jesus all the way,
   His guidance never fails me;
   Within his wounds I find a stay
   When Satan’s power assails me;
   And by his footsteps led,
   My path I safely tread.
   No evil leads my soul astray;
   I walk with Jesus all the way.
6. My walk is heavenward all the way;
   Await, my soul, the morrow,
   When God’s good healing shall allay
   All suffering, sin, and sorrow.
   Then, worldly pomp, be gone!
   To heaven I now press on.
   For all the world I would not stay;
   My walk is heavenward all the way.