You may have gathered that I am not a fan of contemporary church music. Well, one of the songs recommended by DailyEncouragement.net has been on my MP3 player for a few months, and I can’t listen to it without tears welling up in my eyes. It’s ‘Jesus Will Still Be There’, performed by Point of Grace on the 1995 album, “Today’s Best Christian Hits”. I’m starting to open up more to that musical style.

And here are the lyrics:

Things change, plans fail
You look for love on a grander scale
Storms rise, hopes fade
And you place your bets on another day
When the going gets tough, when the ride's too rough
When you're just not sure enough...

Jesus will still be there
His love will never change
Sure as a steady rain
Jesus will still be there
When no one else is true
He'll still be loving you
When it looks like you've lost it all
And you haven't got a prayer
Jesus will still be there

Time flies, hearts turn
A little bit wiser from lessons learned
But sometimes weakness wins
And you lose your foothold once again
When the going gets tough, when the ride's too rough
When you're just not sure enough...

When it looks like you've lost it all
And you haven't got a prayer
Jesus will still be there.

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For a while, I was bothered by the phrase ‘and you place your bets on another day’. But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that is exactly what we sometimes do—-attribute the work of the Holy Spirit and God’s providence to chance. I can’t count the times I’ve told myself, in hindsight, that if I had only prayed about a need that only God could have met, and told the rest of the family to pray about it as well, we all would have had our faith increased when we saw it come to pass.