A beautiful old hymn I really like. It was written, words and music, by Charles F. Weigle using Job 35:10 as his text, "Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night." Mr Weigle lived from 1871-1966, wrote many songs of a similar nature. He spent most of his life as an itinerant evangelist and gospel song writer. One day he returned home from an evcangelistic crusade to find a note from his wife of many years. She said she had had enough of being an ecvangelists wife...she was gone. He became so despondent over the next several years that there were even times he considered suicide. He was in despair, thinking no one really cared for him anymore. But little by little he again became involved ministry as his spiritual faith and strength were restored. During this time of restoration he felt compelled to write a song summarizing his tragic experience. As you read the words, think of this man's broken heart...
I would love to tell you what I think of Jesus since I found in Him a friend so
kind and true; I would tell you how he changed my life completely...He did
something that no other friend could do.
All my life was filled with sin when Jesus found me; all my heart was filled with
misery and woe; Jesus placed His strong and loving arms around me, and He led
me in the way I ought to go.
Everyday He comes to me with new assurance, more and more I understand His
Words of love; but I'll never know just why He came to save me, till some day I
see His blessed face above.
CHORUS: No one ever cared for me like Jesus; there's no other friend so kind
as He; no one else could take the sin and darkness from me...O how much He
cares for me!
I just love those words, and the "heart" behind them, they speak so beautifully of His love for us and our inability to really understand the depth of the love of God. He states it simply and so very sweetly. All of us experience trials...the Christian life is full of them...there for a purpose, to grow us up. If we can "get ahold of" what Mr Weigle is expressing from his own experience of a shattered heart, and ponder the love God has for us, we can sing with him, that no one ever cared for me, like Jesus. So many times as I talk to the Lord, I feel so inadequate...who am I? I don't deserve this kind of love and assurance...or reassurance perhaps. Last year as I struggled with major changes in my life and health, anxiety and depression along with it, I went back to an old exercise...memorizing Scripture. I've found memorizing breaks the hold of the negative on my mind. When I talk to the Lord about it, He begins to give me verses in my daily time with Him...verses that speak to my situation. I'll list a few at the end of the blog for you to check out. God truly is the remedy for anything...there is somthing in the Word for any situation, something of a leading nature to lift our spirit and renew our hurting minds. He is so incredibly faithful and I am so incredibly thankful.
Isaiah 26:3; Psa 119:165; Psa 49:5; Psa 55:1-2; Psa 51:12; Psa 56:31; Psa 34:11; Psa 42:5; Psa 34:19; Mk 11:27; John 14:27; Ruth 2:12; Romans 15:13
