SKIN DEEP

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He was an unlikely candidate for fame for any reasons.  He had a big nose, a small body and his skin was pale as death itself. 

A woman fell in love with from reading and singing the hymns he wrote but when she met him his appearance was so unsettling there was no place for her love to go but away.  Confused and saddened she said, “I only wish I could admire the casket (jewelry box) as much as I admire the jewel.”

Then this hymn writer suffered a stroke that left him with the ability to speak but took away his ability to write.  Bedridden, sick and on the edge of depression he rode the enemy of his illness like a Knight going into battle.  He hired a secretary and dictated his hymns.

 His breaths may well have been short but the drive of his faith was long and strong.  Poems and books poured from this shriveling and sickened frame.  The little man was a giant of courage. 

When Isacc Watts died in 1748 he had written 600 hymns, books on grammar, astronomy, philosophy and geography.  He was prolific for his Lord and his hymns are a long line of gentle persuasion.

You may well have sung many of them many many times.  I know I have and we both are blessed. 

“When I Survey the Wondrous Cross”  “Joy to the World”  “From All That Dwell Below the Skies”  “O God Our Help in Ages Past”

His life could have been one long litany of complaint and self pity.  He could have wrapped himself in regrets and cursed the God who made him so.  Instead he chose to remember that it is the rocks in the river that make the river sing.

“…fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”  —Isaiah 41:10 

 

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A quote below from ONE A DAY blog entitled PILLOW MY HEAD ON NO GUESSES

It was Joseph Cook who said, "Pillow my head on no guesses when I die."  Paul spoke of our future in the strongest possible terms.  In 2 Corinthians 5:l he says, "We know." 

He doesn't say, "We think, we hope, we believe, we trust, we expect" but "we know." 

 And what a magnificence in this Son of God come to walk this earth and make wide the proof of the door to eternity.

 

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