If you don't see me when I walk
up here, I tripped over the wire Good evening. Let's begin our
evening service by standing and singing hymn number 290, Be Still
My Soul, 290. It'll be easier with hymnals,
right? 290, Be Still My Soul. Be still, my soul, the Lord is
on thy side. Bear patiently the cross of grief
or pain. Leave to thy God to order and
provide. In every change ye faithful will
remain. Be still, my soul, thy best,
thy heavenly friend. Through thorny ways leads to
a joyful end. ? Be still, my soul, thy God
doth undertake ? ? To guide the future as He has the past ? ?
Thy hope, thy confidence let nothing shake ? ? All now missteer,
be bright at last. Still my soul the waves and winds
still know his voice who ruled them while he dwelt below. Be still, my soul, the hour is
hastening on, when we shall be forever with the Lord. When disappointment, grief, and
fear are gone, sorrow for God Love's purest joys restored. Be still, my soul, when change
and tears are past. All safe and blessed, we shall
meet at last. Maybe seated. I'd like to read Psalm 147. Psalm
147. Praise ye the Lord, for it is
good to sing praises unto our God. For it is pleasant, and
praise is comely. The Lord doth build up Jerusalem.
He gathereth together the outcasts of Israel. He healeth the broken
in heart and bindeth up their wounds. He telleth the number
of the stars. He calleth them all by their
names. Great is our Lord and of great power. His understanding
is infinite. The Lord lifted up the meek.
He casted the wicked down to the ground. Sing unto the Lord
with thanksgiving. Sing praise upon the harp unto
our God. who covereth the heaven with
clouds, who prepareth the rain for the earth, who maketh grass
to grow upon the mountains. He giveth to the beast his food,
and to the young ravens which cry. He delighteth not in the
strength of the horse. He taketh not pleasure in the
legs of a man. The Lord taketh pleasure in them
that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy. Praise the
Lord, O Jerusalem. Praise thy God, O Zion. For he
hath strengthened the bars of thy gates, he hath blessed thy
children within thee. He maketh peace in thy borders,
and filleth thee with the finest of wheat. He sendeth forth his
commandment upon earth, his word runneth very swiftly. He giveth
snow like wool, he scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He
casteth forth his ice like morsels. Who can stand before his cold?
He sendeth out his word and melteth them. He causeth his wind to
blow and the waters flow. He showeth his word unto Jacob,
his statues and his judgments unto Israel. He hath not dealt
so with any nation. And as for his judgments, they
are not known to them. They have not known them. Praise
ye the Lord. Let's pray. Our Heavenly Father, we thank
you for gathering us together as a small local assembly. Father,
what a great, great blessing it is. It is the highest privilege
that we can have this side of heaven to be gathered as sheep
to hear the wonderful good news of the gospel, the Lord Jesus
Christ, who suffered and died in the room instead of sinners. And Father, we thank you for
this full, free salvation. And Father, we thank you that
we can come as a local assembly from week to week. For Father,
we know that we deserve nothing, and we see thousands of others
around us that do not hear this gospel preached. And Father,
we thank you for this opportunity again tonight. Be with brother
Eric, Lord, continue to give him strength and health, and
give him, Lord, this evening the words to speak. Pour out
your spirit upon him, Lord. Give him liberty and freedom
in declaring the finished work of our dear Savior. Father, remember
us as we listen. Please, Lord, give us a few moments
this evening that we can be separated and open our ears and our hearts
and bless us, strengthen our faith, give us peace and rest
in our souls. And Father, remember those that
are struggling with illness. You know things perfectly. Continue,
Lord, to give us strength that we may continue to provide for
each other and do all that we need to do. Father, remember
all your servants and remember us, Lord, in the unknown future,
that we may rest in your strength and your power. For Jesus' sake
alone, amen. As you remain sitting, let's
sing another hymn. Let's sing 298 in Shady Green
Pastures, 298. In shady green pastures so rich
and so sweet, God leads his dear children along. Where the water's cool flow bathes
the weary one's feet, God leads his dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the
blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all In the night season and all the day long Times
on the mount where the sun shines so bright God leads his dear
children along Sometimes in the valley, in darkest of night,
God leads his dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the
blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives a song in the night season and all the day long. Sorrows befall us and Satan opposed. God leaves his dear children
alone. Through grace we can conquer,
defeat all our foes. God leads his dear children along. Some through the water, some
through the flood. Some through the fire, but all
through the blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all In the night season and all the day long Away
from the mire and away from the clay God leads his dear children
along Away up in glory, eternity's day, God leads his dear children
along. Some through the water, some
through the flood, some through the fire, but all through the
blood. Some through great sorrow, but
God gives us all in the night season and all the day long. Thank you. Good evening. Let's turn to Isaiah 49. Isaiah 49, and I want to look
at verses 14 through 18. Now, this passage here, it's
speaking of difficulties and trials that the church is brought
into. She experiences various trials
and sorrows and afflictions, and these are times of proving. They prove the Lord's work in
us. They prove, they bear out that
fruit that he is bearing in the members of his body in that local
church, that local assembly. And so the Lord, when she's brought
into times of difficulty, the comforting thing for us is that
we know this is the will and purpose of our God. It's according to His purpose. Matthew, along with Mark and
John, they tell us that there was a time where the Lord constrained
His disciples to get into a ship without Him. And as they were
a ways out on the sea, they came into a contrary wind, a wind
blowing against them. And the sea became choppy and
the waves larger so that they couldn't even move without the
presence of their God. They labored in vain and went
nowhere. but it was all according to the
will of our Lord because it enabled them to experience His grace,
to discover Him and see Him in a manner that they would not
otherwise have been able to see Him. And so it was for their
good. And so these distresses that
we face, it's how we come to learn just how great our God
is and that he is what his sovereignty means, that he's sovereign over
all things. And he does according to his
will, his good will, and his pleasure. And what it also enables
us to see is just how much he loves and cares for his beloved
church, his beloved people. I've titled this message, Neither
Forsaken Nor Forgotten. Neither Forsaken Nor Forgotten. And we're going to begin looking
at our oneness to Christ. We're not forsaken of the Lord,
and we're not forgotten of him. We're one with our Savior, and
our Savior is one with the Father. And so there's various times
where we're brought into difficulties that make us feel uncomfortable. We don't feel comfortable with
certain things, the trials, the afflictions, the conflicts, because
it creates an uncertainty that we don't know how things are
going to turn out or what this is all for. Why is this happening? And the church, therefore, is
likely to be heard to say what we see here In the first verse
of our text, verse 14, Zion said, The Lord hath forsaken me, and
my Lord hath forgotten me. The Lord hath forsaken me, and
my Lord hath forgotten me. But we really need to ask ourselves,
would the Lord ever forget His child? Would He forget one for
whom His Son gave His life for? Would He do that? Turn over to
Psalm 77. Psalm 77, and we're gonna pick
up in verse seven through nine. The psalmist asks these questions
for us. Psalm 77 verse 7, Will the Lord
cast off forever? And will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy clean gone forever? Doth His promise fail forevermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up His
tender mercies? And the answer is never. Never. The Lord is not forgotten. This
is for the good of his people. Verse 10 begins, and I said,
this is my infirmity. And that can have a couple of
meanings. That can be taken a couple of
ways. early in our affliction, as we're
crying out to the Lord and speaking words like this, Lord, where
are you? What are you doing? Why is this
happening? And we recognize that this is
my infirmity, that I'm speaking like this. Why am I doubting? Why am I not believing the promises
of my God? Where's the faith that he's wrought
in me? which knows that he is sovereign
and over all things and doing according to his good will and
his pleasure. And so that's my infirmity. We see the weakness, the doubting
of this flesh. But there's also another way
to take that word, to understand this infirmity. Because as the
trial goes on and we're crying out to the Lord and reading his
word and hearing his word preached And seeking the Lord in it, we
realize this is the will of my God for me. As Paul said, I was
given a thorn in the flesh. This is my infirmity. This is
what the Lord in his good will and pleasure has purposed to
give me. As he said in 1 Thessalonians
5, there, in all things give thanks for this is the will of
God for you. In all things give thanks because
whatever is being done, whatever the Lord is bringing us through,
it's His will for His beloved church. It's for His people. And so Isaiah asks in 40, Isaiah
40, verse 27, Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel,
my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over
from my God? Why do you say that? Why do you
think that? Because the reality is our God
is very gracious to us. and His purpose is always done
in grace. You think about it, where we
are in Isaiah 49, He's just told us in verse eight that He gave
Christ for a covenant of the people. And His church, His fold,
His sheep are that people for whom Christ was given a covenant
of grace to establish us under the covenant of grace and mercy
of our God, for our good, for our life, for our light and enjoyment
and fellowship with God. He's given that to us. And so
he cannot be withholding times of refreshing to punish us. And he cannot be withholding
times of refreshing for us to figure it out and turn things
around and do it right. He's not waiting on us because
that's not His grace. That's not how He ministers life
and peace and joy and fellowship to His people. He must therefore
have a purpose in what He's doing. That's the only conclusion. He
is in control. He is sovereign. He is all wise
and perfect and holy and just he's doing things according to
his purpose and his purpose is to reveal himself more and more
to his children in love and compassion and to be gracious to us in the
same manner that the Lord constrained his disciples to get into the
ship knowing they'd be coming into a contrary wind because
He controls all things and He purposed to bring them into it
that He would reveal Himself as the Sovereign, Almighty, Gracious,
Loving Savior that He is for them and for all His people. all you, here this very night. So to forget a child of His grace
would be to forget the cries of His darling Son, our Savior. It would be to ignore his blood
and to pass by what he's accomplished and all the promises he's given
to us throughout history concerning his son and what he would do
for his people in his son. Turn over to Hebrews chapter
five. Hebrews chapter five and we'll
pick up in verse seven. And the question here is, will
God forget his son and what he's accomplished for us? Hebrews
5, 7, who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up
prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto
him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in
that he feared. Though he were a son, yet learned
he obedience by the things which he suffered, and being made perfect,
He became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that
obey him, called of God and high priest after the order of Melchizedek. So he cannot forget his son,
and therefore he's never going to forsake or forget one of his
children, whom he's brought in to the beloved family of God. Our Lord's prayer for you is
that we would believe on him through this gospel, through
the hope of salvation, and the comfort that we've received of
God in his son, Jesus Christ. We that believe on Christ, our
Lord prayed in John 17, 21, that they all may be one, as thou,
Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in
us. We're one in the Son and the
Father that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. So we're not going to be forsaken
or forgotten because we're one with the Son and the Father and
the Holy Ghost. We're one with our God. And so
the Lord, next, back in our text, verse 15, uses a very familiar
experience a very familiar example of love and tenderness, probably
what's most well known to all men in the love of a child, of
a mother for her child, right? In verse 15, can a woman forget
her sucking child or her nursing child, that's a small young child,
that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? This
child is nursing, and when you've had a child, and that child begins
to get older and disobedient and disrespectful, a wall can
be built. There can be a wall built, at
least for a time. But this is a nursing child,
a child that hasn't been disobedient. This is a tender, sweet child.
that's utterly dependent on the care of its mother. And if you've nursed, as I understand
it, if you've nursed a child, your body, even if you get busy
with doing things and laboring, if you forget, your body will
remind you. You'll be in pain until you take
care of that child, and you'll be reminded. So can a mother
forget her child? Yay, they may forget. As we read
that, we think, yeah, there's been things I've read in the
news about negligent mothers. A mother can, it's rare, but
every so often, they can forget or abandon their children. They
may forget, but the Lord tells us, I will not forget thee. I will not forget thee. And so
our Lord, our Savior, is continually interceding for us. He is at
the right hand of the throne of God, and He's continually
interceding for us before our God and Father, and His wounds
plead for us. His wounds plead for us. His
blood was shed to perfect us, to make atonement for our sin,
so that we are delivered and forgiven and have peace with
God. He says in verse 16, Behold,
I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. He's reminding us
as well of His sacrifice. He's putting us in memory of
what He's done, how that He's laid down His life, how that
He bore our punishment and died our death to deliver us from
eternal hell and death. He reminds us that he's offered
himself to the Father, that he was heard in his cries and was
raised from the dead, meaning our God has accepted the sacrifice
of his Son and we are reconciled to holy God by our Lord. He remembers us for he bears
the markings of our wounds, he bears our bruises, he bared our
stripes, To put away our sin, that which we deserved, he bare
in his own body. And he is directing our eye of
faith to see, to behold, even what he showed to Thomas who
doubted. When Thomas doubted that this
was the Lord raised from the dead, and he said to him, Reach
hither thy finger, Thomas, and behold my hands, and reach hither
thy hand. thrust it into my side and be
not faithless, but believing. And Thomas answered and said
unto him, my Lord and my God, behold, brethren, this is your
God. This is your Lord and your Savior
speaking to you with words of comfort and words of peace to
assure you. He loves you. He's not forsaken. He's not forgotten. He's not
forgotten to show you tender mercies and to be gracious to
you. He remembers us well. He says
there in Isaiah 49 at the end of verse 16, thy walls are continually
before me. Thy walls. And that gives the,
it reminds us of what he says concerning salvation. that our walls are salvation. That salvation is our walls encircling
us round about. We are brought into the fold
of God. We are brought in among the people
of God in the body of Christ within salvation's walls and
they're always before the Lord. He knows them that are his. He
cannot forget them. He purchased us with his own
blood, so that no enemy shall break him and be able to remove
us out of the hand of our God. He said, neither shall any man
pluck them out of my hand, and no man is able to pluck them
out of my Father's hand. So why then are there times when
we wonder and we doubt and think, Lord, What's going on? Why are we troubled like this? And why are we going through
this now? Why do we feel like God has forgotten
us or think that he's forgotten us? And if not to punish us,
then what is the reason for these times of difficulty? Why does
the Lord bring His Church and His people through times of difficulty? And it's to show us that our
God has a wonderful purpose in allowing these trials to distress
His Church. He has purpose in it because
it always works for our good and it exalts the glory of our
sovereign Lord and Savior before our eyes. I'm going to read from
Isaiah 30 verse 18. He says, And therefore will the
Lord wait, therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious
to you. And therefore will he be exalted,
that he may have mercy upon you. For the Lord is a God of judgment. Blessed are all they that wait
for him. And then to you that wait for
him, he says in Isaiah 40 verse 31. But they that wait upon the
Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings
as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And they shall walk and not faint. And so these trials and difficulties,
they press us. They press against us and they
weigh heavily upon us. And what are they effectual at
doing? That pressure, that weight, that
fear and concern that we get as we go through the trials and
the troubling, what is it effectual at doing? It's effectual at destroying
our confidence in the flesh. We that are the people of God,
it's effectual at destroying our confidence in the flesh. It's effectual in bringing low
the pride of man. It's effectual in putting us
on our face before our God, to cry out to Him and to seek Him. It's effectual in working the
will of our God for us. And so, we see there that our
faith is not destroyed, but the work of God is made evident in
his people. He says there, in another place
in 1 Thessalonians, he reminds us of this. 1 Thessalonians 5, 24. where he says, faithful is he
that calleth you who also will do it. He's begun this good work
in you. He's going to bring it. He's
going to keep it and sustain you and protect you and keep
you to the end. It's his work. And so the adversity
that we go through, it always works for our good and it reveals
to us the love that our God has for us and the life that he's
given to us in Christ. We're weak in ourselves. We're
weak in this flesh. And we find that we're insufficient
for the things that we're called to do. and we lean upon the Lord. Our God shows us that we're weak
in ourselves, but that just means that the faith that we have,
the hope that we're given in our Savior is wrought in us,
not by this flesh, but of Him. It's of Him that keeps us ever
looking, ever coming, ever believing, ever hoping, and loving, loving
the brethren, loving our Lord and Savior who's delivered us
out of darkness and death by this blessed word. Turn over
to 2 Corinthians 4. 2 Corinthians 4, and we'll pick
up in verse 7. Here Paul reminds the brethren. saying, we have this treasure
in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be
of God and not of us. We are troubled on every side,
yet not distressed. We are perplexed, but not in
despair, persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not
destroyed, always bearing about in the body the dying of the
Lord Jesus. that the life also of Jesus might
be made manifest in our body. For we which live are always
delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus
might be made manifest in our mortal flesh." And so, in faithfulness,
our God is delivering us from trusting in this flesh, from
from the pride of life, the lust of the eyes, the lust of the
flesh. He's delivering us from every
evil way, every false way, every vain idol that we look to in
this flesh. Our Lord is delivering us from
these things, from the love of the world, and he strips us of
our self-confidences and the vain thoughts that we have And
by wisdom and glorious power, He reveals to us that Christ,
our Savior, is all. He's all in our salvation. He's
our sufficiency, and we find that He's everything we need
to stand before God on the Day of Judgment. provided everything
for us. So we need not be afraid because
our Lord is patiently revealing to us His will for us. And it
all works for our good and it's according to His purpose. Now,
Not only are we individual members of his body, not only are we
helped and taught through these trials and strengthened by our
Lord, and not only does other things that he works in us is
just a love for one another, is deepened as we go through
the trial, as we walk through these difficulties that he brings
us through, but as a church, As a church being strengthened
by our Lord, you find that having gone through the trial, there's
a greater resolve to desire to see the Lord establish His work,
to see Him establish His church, to bring forth His word that
others would hear it and be brought in, that others would hear it
and that word being attended to by our Lord and the Spirit
of God. that they would be given life
and that they too would hear the voice of the Son of God. And he says there in verse 17
of our text, he says, thy children shall make haste, thy destroyers
and they that made thee waste shall go forth of thee. So the children that are making
haste, that's a reference to those people who are hearing
the word. That word being ministered to
them there in the church. They're hearing that gospel word. They're hearing it with life
given to them by the Spirit of God so that it's in response
to what they've heard. It's in response to the life
that they've been given. It's in response to the new birth
of the Spirit of God so that they make haste to be gathered
to the people of God. Our Lord does this. He ministers
that word. He makes it effectual in the
hearts of the people that they gather together. with the people
of God to hear that word, to feed upon the Lord Jesus Christ
and be joined with those of a like mind. And then we're told that
our destroyers, those wasters, those that wasted us and troubled
us, they shall depart from us and not trouble us anymore. And
that refers to the enemies that our Savior conquered. It's the
enemies of the people of God that he's conquered. Now here
in the text, it's pictured in Babylon who took the people captive
and subjugated them in captivity, but it points to our deliverance
from sin. That sin that troubles us, that
sin that troubles us in this flesh, our saviors delivered
us from it. The love of the world, He strips
us from it. He's overcome the world. So even when we see the weakness
in us and we fear I shall be lost, I shall be as one of those
lost and taken away in the flood of sin and death in this world,
our Savior says to us, I have overcome the world. You won't
be defeated by them. They won't take you back. You're
mine. You're my child. It refers to the evil one whose
dominion we were under. Now we are delivered from that
strong man's house and we are brought into the kingdom of light
so that we are our gods. We are his people, his children,
his servants. We're His, and we're His possessions,
so that our Savior has delivered us from all our enemies. He helps us in our infirmities.
He strengthens us, even though in ourselves we are weak. He's
our strength, our hope, our comfort, our all. And so we need Him. We need His grace, but He'll
never leave us. He'll never leave us to the desire
of our foes. And those fears that we have
as we go through trials and we worry and wonder, shall I be
overcome by these things? Our Lord says, no, you're mine. I'll keep you. I'll protect you. I'm your deliverer. Your wasters
will be gone. and they'll trouble you no more.
And so we look to him, we find in him that he's an all sufficient
help for his people. Over in Hebrews 6, why don't
you turn there, Hebrews 6, and we'll pick up at the end of verse
18. Hebrews 6.18, that we might have
a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon
the hope set before us, which hope we have as an anchor of
the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that
within the veil, whither the forerunner for us is entered,
even Jesus. And so the comfort we have is
that our Savior has gone before us. And He's leading us through
the fiery trial to reveal to us the strong consolation that
we have in Him. He's showing to us the surety,
the sureness, the solidness of our foundation that He is our
refuge and our hope. And that we should know that
our Lord is the very anchor of our soul, keeping us. We're not
keeping ourselves. It is not by our strength, or
our might, or our wisdom, but by His. And He has us. He is the anchor of our soul.
Therefore we read in 1 Peter 5 verse 5, Be clothed with humility. For God resisteth the proud,
and giveth grace to the humble. Humble yourselves therefore under
the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. When I
was reading Robert Hawker, he mentioned on this passage, he
said, the distress of Zion only makes a way for the display of
divine love. Our distresses are that means
by which our God shows us his love, his love. And through that,
he fills the heart with hope. And He tells us that hope maketh
not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our
hearts. That new heart which He's given
to us, which cannot trust the flesh, which cannot look to and
find comfort and solace in this world, but draws all its peace
and comfort from the Lord God Himself. We're waiting upon Him. We're looking to Him, we're trusting
Him and believing the promises of His Word. And He tells us,
you that wait on the Lord, your strength shall be renewed. You shall soar, you shall mount
up and soar with eagles. On eagles' wings, by the Spirit,
looking to Him, looking to Christ our Lord. And then finally, we
see here in verse 18, our Lord has given us his word and he
tells us to look and behold his blessings. Verse 18, lift up
thine eyes round about and behold, all these gather themselves together
and come to thee. These are all those children
making haste to flee to be with the people of God. As I live,
that's the Lord's word, as I live, saith the Lord, thou shalt surely
clothe thee with them all, as with an ornament, and bind them
on thee as a bride doeth. And that means that our God,
in His purpose, establishes His work. He always fulfills that
which He's purposed to do for His people. And so He will draw
all His sheep to Himself. He'll join them together with
the flock, because the work is the Lord's. That's what the Lord
does as it pleases Him. As we read there in Acts 2.47,
that the Lord added daily to the church such as should be
saved are added to the church daily, such as should be saved.
So there shall be afflictions, there shall be sorrows, and there's
times where we'll wonder. We won't see or understand why
the Lord is doing what he's doing. As Zion said, the Lord hath forsaken
me and my Lord hath forgotten me. But no, he's neither forsaken
thee nor forgotten. because he cannot forget his
children whom he loves. He hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee. And our Lord, when he commissioned
his church, saying, go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing
them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I've commanded
you. And lo, I am with you always,
even unto the end of the world. Amen. And so you are not forgotten. You're not forsaken, and you're
not forgotten, brethren. The Lord has a purpose in the
things which he does, and it's always for our good, and it always
reveals his divine love to us. Amen. Let's close in prayer. Our gracious Lord, we thank you,
Father, for your grace and your mercy. We thank you, Lord, for
your word of promise. Lord, keep us ever looking to
you. And Lord, Give us eyes to see
and behold Your will and purpose, how You are establishing Your
will and purpose here, not only in the earth, but even in our
midst, Lord. We look to You. We're waiting
upon You, knowing that You're the one who gives strength to
Your people. You're the one who encourages and keeps and fills
our hearts with hope and love, shed abroad by the Holy Ghost. Lord, we pray for your people.
We think of those that are sick. We think of Katie and ask that
you would heal her quickly and speedily. Lord, that you would
protect Joanne and Josh and keep your people. Keep them, Lord,
ever looking to Christ, ever looking to you. As we go through
various trials and disappointments or struggles, Lord, help us. Help us to keep looking to You
and waiting upon You, crying out, seeking You, knowing that
You do all things well. Lord, we ask these things in
the name of our Lord and Savior. Amen. Let's all stand and sing a closing
hymn like a river glorious 287, 287. Like a river glorious is God's
perfect peace, Over all victorious in His bright increase. Perfect yet it floweth fuller
every day, Perfect yet it groweth deeper all the way. Stayed upon Jehovah, hearts are
fully blessed. Finding as he promised, perfect
peace and rest. Hidden in the hollow of his blessed
hand, Never foe can follow, never trade or stand. Not a surge of
worry, not a shade of care. Not a blast of hurry, touch the
spirit there. ? Speed upon Jehovah, hearts
are fully blessed ? ? Finding as he promised perfect peace
and rest ? ? Every joy or trial fallen from above ? ? Traced
upon our dial by the son of love ? We may trust Him fully, all
for us to do. They who trust Him wholly, find
Him wholly true. Seen upon Jehovah, hearts are
fully blessed. Finding as he promised perfect
peace and rest. Thank you.