Seize the Moment – Day 830
Today’s hymn focus will be
He Keeps Me Singing
John 15:10-11(NLT)
“When you obey my commandments, you remain in my love, just as I obey my Father’s commandments and remain in his love. I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow!”
Luther B. Bridges wrote this hymn in 1910. He was asked to be the guest speaker at a revival conference in Kentucky. He had wife and three sons stay with his father-in-law while he was away. The services lasted for two weeks with a wonderful time of ministry. The last service closed with great joy and he couldn’t wait to share his excitement and all the blessings with his family.
So he called his wife. But it wasn’t his wife’s voice on the long distance line. He was told the news that his wife and three boys had perished in a fire that had destroyed the farmhouse. Leaning heavily on His Savior and expressing his faith in God, he penned the words to this hymn:
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, sweetest name I know
Fills my every longing, keeps me singing as I go
YOUTUBE:
He Keeps Me Singing
There’s within my heart a melody;
Jesus whispers sweet and low,
“Fear not, I am with you, peace, be still,”
in all of life’s ebb and flow.
Refrain:
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
sweetest name I know,
fills my every longing,
keeps me singing as I go.
discord filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings,
stirred the slumbering chords again. [Refrain]
trials fall across the way;
though sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
see His footprints all the way. [Refrain]
resting ‘neath His sheltering wing,
always looking on His smiling face,
that is why I shout and sing. [Refrain]
far beyond the starry sky;
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown,
I shall reign with Him on high. [Refrain]