Today's promise: God protects His people
How has God protected us
in the past?
Before the mountains
were created, before you made the earth and the world, you are God, without
beginning or end.
You turn people back to
dust, saying, "Return to dust!"
Psalm 90:3-4 NLT
Our help in ages past
O God, our help in ages
past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home!
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
ISAAC WATTS (1674-1748)
In 1714, the people of
England were anxious. Queen Anne lay dying, and she had no son or daughter to
succeed her. Who would be the new monarch, and what changes would that make?
Isaac Watts had reason to worry. His father had been imprisoned under the
previous regime because his views did not please the ruling family. As a young
child, Isaac has been carried by his mother to visit his father in jail. But
Queen Anne had brought a new tolerance, and freedom for the elder Watts. Now
that she was dying, what would happen?
Isaac Watts turned to
Psalm 90 on this occasion and penned what may be the greatest of his more than
six hundred hymns. In essence, it is a poem about time. God stands above human
time, and in Him all our anxieties can be laid to rest. The greatness of our
eternal God was a favorite theme of Watts. When the events of the day bring
worry, the God of all ages remains our eternal home.
adapted from The One Year® Book of Hymns by Mark Norton and
Robert Brown, Tyndale House Publishers (1995), entry for January 29
A person can respond to
suffering like an egg, or like a potato. A potato goes into the boiling water
hard, but comes out pliable. An egg goes into the boiling water soft and comes
out hard.
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from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation and other publications of Tyndale
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