You turn us back to dust, and say, “Turn back, you mortals.”
For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, or like a watch in the night.
You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning;
in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers.
※ Psalm 90:3-6 ※
There is one thing we are lacking: to believe that the Almighty God is our Father and our Lord. To believe that for God, our greatest cares are like the worries of small children in their parents’ eyes; that God can turn things around and dispose of them in no time at all; for God it’s easy, not hard at all. We must believe that
a thousand years in God’s sight are like a day, that God’s thoughts are higher than our thoughts
[Isa. 55:8–9], that God is with us in spite of everything. Let us receive the call of the church once again:
You of little faith, why are you so fearful? In the midst of the storm, Christ is in the ship. Away with you, Fear! Let us see you, Lord Jesus, strong helper, Savior!
※ Dietrich Bonhoeffer ※
When the storms of life are raging, stand by me;
when the storms of life are raging, stand by me.
When the world is tossing me like a ship upon the sea,
thou who rulest wind and water, stand by me. Amen.
※ Charles Albert Tindley (1905) ※
