Day 4 - Week 79 - Psalm 56:3 "When I am afraid, I will trust in You."

Be not dismayed what e'er betide,

God will take care of you.

Beneath His wings of love abide,

God will take care of you.

 

He will take care of you,

Through all the day, o'er all the way.

He will take care of you,

God will take care of you.

 

Civilla D. Martin - 1904

 

 

When I learned the words to this old hymn as a very young girl, they brought such comfort and assurance to me.  Up until this point, I had been a very worrisome little girl, a true hypochondriac, convinced that I would procure every disease that I learned of.  These were the days of Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey, M.D. and I couldn't watch an episode without going to bed convinced that I would die before morning due to the "disease of the week." 

 

I had Christian parents who introduced me to Jesus very, very early in life, and I had started developing my faith due to their influence and the influence of my Lutheran church and parochial schooling.  But when I let the words to this hymn soak into my soul, I started understanding the trust

component of faith.  I started realizing that with God as my Father, and Jesus as my Savior, that I had nothing to worry about.  Years later, when I read the verse in Romans 14:8, I recognized that this verse expressed the realization that I had come to.  "If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. So, whether we live or die, we belong to the Lord."

 

We belong to the Lord...in the here and now, and in the there and then.  We can trust God...always. 

 

Childhood fears fade, but we find ourselves with adult fears as well.  There is much to fear in this broken world of ours.  But if we know whose hands our lives are being held in, we have nothing to fear.  We know that God is a good and loving Father. 

 

My prayer is that your fears are relieved tonight knowing that God will take care of you, what e'er betide.