Lyrics by William Cushing, melody by Ira D. Sankey 1876.
“Be safe.”
Do we hear this often?
The hard part is, our physical is not all that we human beings are. What about the spiritual, emotional? How can we be safe in this day?
Charles Spurgeon wrote devotions in “Beside Still Waters,” to minister in all trials of this day:
“The mind can descend far lower than the body, for in it there are bottomless pits. The flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds and no more, but the soul can bleed in ten thousand ways, and die over and over again each hour.”
C. H. Spurgeon was a man of God’s Word and ended many a devotion with the words, “Increase my faith dear Lord.” What a great encouragement he is to us today.
We live with an overload of stress, change, uncertainties, crisis, and loss. As the power of God’s Word through the void and darkness, “Let there be light,” hymns of old minister power and light when we read them aloud and link our heart to their chorus:
O safe to the Rock that is higher than I,
My soul in its conflicts and sorrows would fly;
Alone I would perish, undone would I be;
Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee.
Chorus:
Hiding in Thee, hiding in Thee,
Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee.
In the calm of the noontide, in sorrow’s lone hour,
In times when temptation casts o’er me its pow’r;
In the tempests of life, on its wide, heaving sea,
Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee. Hymn by William Cushing , 1876.
There is solid and sure refuge when we run to the Lord in His Word. Sixty-six Books of life and repose with one common thread, the Lord Jesus Christ.
We must make it a pattern in our lives in these last days. A pattern of faith to run to this Rock that is higher than ourselves.
Oh, to know His Word in our heart, to sing His glory and might. There is no one like our God. He is our refuge. We must cling to Him like never before.
“Today.”
“Today.”
Do we hear the Lord’s call?
How oft in the conflict, when pressed by the foe,
I have fled to my Refuge and breathed out my woe;
How often, when trials like sea billows roll,
Have I hidden in Thee, O Thou Rock of my soul.
Is this the choice we make it the hardest of times? Faith in God.
Today, yes, let’s choose to hide in our refuge of truth and power and
“look forward to and await the coming of His Son from heaven, Whom He raised from the dead, Jesus Who personally rescues and delivers us out of and from the wrath . . . which is coming . . . and draws us to Himself [that is invests us with all the privileges and rewards of the new life in Christ, the Messiah]” 1 Thessalonians 1:10, Amplified.
We can trust our Lord and Savior, the Messiah of the world.
Let us abide in His love, right now, this hour:
Hiding in Thee, hiding in Thee,
Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee.
Our trials will prove fruitful with purpose as we cling to the Rock. May this be our story:
“Brethren, for this reason, in [spite of all] our stress and crushing difficulties we have been filled with comfort and cheer about you [because of] your faith—
the leaning of your whole personality on God in complete trust and confidence. Because now we [really] live, if you stand [firm] in the Lord” 1 Thessalonians 3: 7,8.
Hiding in Thee, hiding in Thee,
Thou blest “Rock of Ages,” I’m hiding in Thee.