A Recovering Baptist in South Carolina

One of my favorite hymns growing up was "I Know Who Holds Tomorrow." One of the reasons was it was it was one of the few songs I could play on the guitar, so I learned it well. This evening as the work was winding down for some reason the words of this song came to my mind. Isn't it wonderful to know who holds tomorrow! I don't know about tomorrow, I just live from day to day. I don't borrow from it's sunshine, For it's skies may turn to gray. I don't worry o'er the future, For I know what Jesus said, And today I'll walk beside Him, For He knows what is ahead. Many things about tomorrow, I don't seem to understand; But I know Who holds tomorrow, And I know Who holds my hand. Ev'ry step is getting brighter, As the golden stairs I climb; Ev'ry burden's getting lighter; Ev'ry cloud is silver lined. There the sun is always shining, There no tear will dim the eyes, At the ending of the rainbow, Where th...

Over the past several weeks God has really been working in my heart and in my life. My recent heath problems were followed by a personal situation where God put a decision in front of me. Follow God's will for my life, wait, and have peace about what God is doing or I could do my own thing and have what I wanted right now, not that what I wanted was a bad thing or that I won't get it in the future. I decided to follow God's will for my life and he has kept the thing which I desire from me. After making this decision there is still a choice. I can be content with what God is doing, or I can be bitter, even though I am doing what God wants. Here again I was torn for a little while, but while reading Proverbs 3 this morning I came to verse 32 where Solomon writes "For the devious are an abomination to the LORD; But He is intimate with the upright" The second part of the verse really hit me. The idea that God would be intimate with me, that he would be that cl...