Today’s hymn focus will be

“Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”

 Psalm 56:11-12(NLT)             

I trust in God, so why should I be afraid?

What can mere mortals do to me?

 I will fulfill my vows to you, O God,

and will offer a sacrifice of thanks for your help.”

Born in Dover, England in 1850, Louisa M.R. Stead became a Christian at the age of 9. She felt the call to be a missionary in her teenage years. At the age of 21 she migrated to the United States and while attending a revival service in Urbana, Ohio, she felt the Lord affirm that missionary call. She wanted to go to China, but her health proved to be too frail for the climate there. She married and had a child, but during a family vacation to Long Island beach, her husband drowned after saving a child.

She and her daughter went to South Africa as missionaries for 15 years, and it was there that she wrote this hymn:

          Jesus, Jesus how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er.

          Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! O for grace to trust Him more!

 She is quoted as saying, “One cannot in the face of peculiar difficulties help saying, ‘Who is sufficient for these things?’ but with simple confidence and trust we may and do say ‘Our sufficiency is of God.’”

We need to wake up with that same confidence that Jesus is our Savior friend and will always be with us to the end.

YOUTUBE:

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus