Farther Along
Bill and Gloria Gaither Lyrics
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Farther along we'll understand why
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
We'll understand it all by and by
Tempted and tried will oft make you wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long
While there are others living about us
When death has found and taken our loved ones
Leaving our home so lonely and dreary
Then do we wonder why others prosper
Living so wicked year after year
The lyrics to Bill and Gloria Gaither's song "Farther Along" offer a message of hope and encouragement to those who are struggling with life's challenges and uncertainties. The song asserts that although we may not always understand why things happen the way they do, we can trust that someday we will gain a greater understanding of the mysteries of life. The refrain, "Farther along we'll know more about it, farther along we'll understand why," serves as a reminder that our struggles are temporary and ultimately insignificant in the grand scheme of things. The song encourages listeners to persevere through difficult times and to focus on the positive aspects of life, even in the face of adversity.
Line by Line Meaning
Farther along we'll know more about it
As we go further in our journey, we will gain more knowledge and understanding about life's mysteries.
Farther along we'll understand why
As we gain knowledge and understanding, we'll come to comprehend the reasons behind our trials and difficulties.
Cheer up my brother live in the sunshine
Don't let the troubles of this life bring you down, my brother. Live joyfully, and find happiness in the good things around you.
We'll understand it all by and by
In time, all will be made clear to us, and we'll come to see the big picture of God's plan.
Tempted and tried will oft make you wonder
When we face temptation and adversity, we may wonder why we must endure such trials.
Why it should be thus all the day long
We may question why we must face these trials day in and day out.
While there are others living about us
Even though there are others around us who seem to have it easy and are not troubled by the same things we are.
Never molested though in the wrong
Some people seem to get away with doing the wrong things, and never seem to face any consequences.
When death has found and taken our loved ones
When someone we love passes away and we are left with loneliness and grief.
Leaving our home so lonely and dreary
The absence of our loved one can leave our surroundings feeling dark and empty.
Then do we wonder why others prosper
During these hard times, we may question why others around us seem to prosper and be happy.
Living so wicked year after year
Especially when they don't live righteously and seem to disregard God's commandments.
Lyrics © O/B/O APRA AMCOS
Written by: J R BAXTER, JOHN STARLING
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@Jean1juan
Tempted and tried, we’re oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long;
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.
Refrain:
Farther along we’ll know more about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.
Sometimes I wonder why I must suffer,
Go in the rain, the cold, and the snow,
When there are many living in comfort,
Giving no heed to all I can do.
Tempted and tried, how often we question
Why we must suffer year after year,
Being accused by those of our loved ones,
E’en though we’ve walked in God’s holy fear.
Often when death has taken our loved ones,
Leaving our home so lone and so drear,
Then do we wonder why others prosper,
Living so wicked year after year.
“Faithful till death,” saith our loving Master;
Short is our time to labor and wait;
Then will our toiling seem to be nothing,
When we shall pass the heavenly gate.
Soon we will see our dear, loving Savior,
Hear the last trumpet sound through the sky;
Then we will meet those gone on before us,
Then we shall know and understand why.
@MD-hg9dq
A prayer requiring faith to receive THE BLESSED HOPE of knowing that our final destination is where the wicked cease from troubling. Using caps as emphasis to show the honest reverence for GOD'S SOVEREIGNTY.
On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰
YOU SAW them as sinners (missing the mark resulting in their weaknesses prevailing causing guilt of wrong doing) because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow.
If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰
They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh.
They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seek to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take.
Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movies, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES.
LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain.
LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏🏾👏👏🏾👏👏🏾 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌🙌🏾
LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰
LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their door until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌🙌🏾
If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee.
Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again (repentance manifesting itself in a changed life), I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh.
O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰
@lenhummel5766
Classic hymn song...FARTHER ALONG,...lyrics...
💛💎💛☝🕊👉👉👉
Tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder
Why it should be thus all the day long;
While there are others living about us,
Never molested, though in the wrong.
Refrain:
Farther along we’ll know more about it,
Farther along we’ll understand why;
Cheer up, my brother, live in the sunshine,
We’ll understand it all by and by.
Sometimes I wonder why I must suffer,
Go in the rain, the cold, and the snow,
When there are many living in comfort,
Giving no heed to all I can do.
Tempted and tried, how often we question
Why we must suffer year after year,
Being accused by those of our loved ones,
E’en though we’ve walked in God’s holy fear.
Often when death has taken our loved ones,
Leaving our home so... lone and so drear,
Then do we wonder why others may prosper,
Living so wicked year after year.
“Faithful till death,” saith our loving Master;
Short is our time to labor and wait;
🕊Then will our toiling seem to be nothing,
When we shall pass the heavenly gate.🕊☝👑
Soon we will see our dear, loving Savior,
Hear the last trumpet☝ sound through the sky;
Then we will meet those gone on before us,
Then we shall know and understand why.
@mzubuki
God is a spirit, those that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:24 (KJV)
Charity is love that gives.
A large group of people erroneously and disingenuously use the word love and spread it like mayonnaise over anything.
<--Read 1 Cor 13:4-8 (KJV) the Greeks had four words for love, Agape: ἀγάπη. Is the love of God.
Love Jesus, seek God and his sweet amazing grace while he may be found.
For he:God, the creator of all things has spoke through a book called the Holy Bible, the KJV is the most accurate modern English translation. Pray for wisdom.
I believe the Holy Bible with all my heart.
James 3:16 "For where envy and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
Evil is to be uncaring and destructive in your relationship with others for selfish gain, or to be internally selfishly weak. All sins require Evil.
God wanted to know who thought being a good person was important.
Pride is always a function of self-worth (a way of acting) that will not lower itself to perform a healthy relationship and standard of love.
Matthew 4:4 "Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Ezekiel 47 speaks of a river that comes out of the throne of God, where ankle deep water, can go to knee deep water, then waist deep, then chest deep. Then you couldn't cross. Go deeper in your relationship with the Lord.
The Hebrew word for Darkness also means Ignorance. Hebrew for light also means knowledge. God says I am Knowledge.
Precepts are ideas accepted by the mind.
Concepts are pictures of ideas.
@mzubuki
Know you the times we are in, and prepare yourself against the wiles of the Devil your adversary,
be sober-minded and vigilant for he stalks around like a lion seeking whom he may kill, steal,
and destroy. Grid your loins about in truth, seek truth, and pray for wisdom.
Read Ephesians 6 to further armor yourself. The enemy is trying to talk the Good out of people. He will show up as a voice in your head, to try and plant an evil thing in your heart.
Do you know prophecy, and are you prudent to it? The New Testament was written in greek.
Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
1 Timothy 4:1-3
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
2 Timothy 3:1-9, Matthew 24:7 <--Read. Nation = ἔθνος:Ethnos(In greek) = race: different groups and segregations of people, Matthew 24:8 <--Read. Beginnings of sorrows are likening and calling the situation to the birth pangs of a woman in which contractions of labor get more frequent and intense the closer the baby gets to delivery, so in context shall the things aforementioned and in relation to the verse in the Holy Bible will get more frequent and intense the closer christ gets to returning., Matthew 24:12 <--Read. Iniquity:ἀνομία: Lawlessness: the desire to have no law or rule of God, Matthew 4:4 <--Read the King James Bible, and check behind me.
One aspect of love while there are many, (1 Corinthians 13 (Charity is love)) is that it requires some sacrifice out of hope for something. It says that Eve saw that the tree was good for eating. So she imagined it in her head tasting Good before she ever bit into it. I wonder how many families were destroyed because someone saw the booze taste good.
@geraldwright7513
Years agoI was going through a divorce. My late mother talked me into going to a Gaither concert . I became a fan that and ever sense .Miss you mom , I'll see you again
@RedDawg
Russ Taff could sing the Yellow Pages, and I would listen. I was a young soldier in Desert Storm. I owned a cassette player and all of the Russ Taff cassettes. I listened to Russ Taff, Dallas Holm, Wayne Watson, and Carman. These four men ministered to my heart, mind, and soul.
@curtwright892
You got that right! I've been a Russ Taff fan for over 35 years...I love his voice!
@sheltonburch9040
Haven’t sang gospel song in years but know that that.God is in the mist of anointed singers like Russ Taff
@beckyevans6259
Thank you so much for your service to our Country.
@junebug19461
Thank you for your service. My sil was just promoted to Col. last week. I know your sacrifice for your country. God Bless you. The yellow pages? I love it!
@tonyledrew4702
@joe Collier I’m Canadian but thank you for your service !
@needabreak
This is one of my favorite hymns. I sang this in church when I was a little girl. It was a little pentecostal church in Lebanon, Oregon. Pastor Roth was one of the sweetest and dearest people in the world. Russ Taff is one of my favorite singers in the world. All of my favorites are all part of the Gaither group. All but one. Going back in time isn't such a bad thing;in the mind.That little white church is just a thought away.
@craigoliver1611
At 3.08 George Younce gives Russ a hug. The song is beautiful, Russ performs it beautifully and ALL these Gospel singers add more beauty to God's love. ☺️ This video, song, performance is stunning. ♥️🧡💛💜
@mayncameron1169
Russ Taff I first seen him live in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada oh about think it was about 1994 or 95 he opened for Charles Johnson and the revivers man sure does bring back alot of fond memories when the Lord called to know him as Lord an Savior precious memories 🙏❤️🙏