arms: How sweet is fellowship, how
abundant is joy, and rest in your eternal arms;
in your arms forever.
2. On this journey, my heart is full of peace, resting in your eternal arms;
the more you go, the brighter and brighter the grace shines, and resting in your eternal arms.
3. What doubts do I have? What am I afraid of? Rest in your everlasting arms; rest
with the Lord forever and ever, rest in your everlasting arms.
(Vice) Rest in peace! rest in peace! Peace of mind, no fear; rest in peace! rest in peace! Rest in your eternal arms.
The psalmist introduced
that this psalm was written especially for those who were being tried and whose hearts were broken. When I sang this psalm, I thought of God’s eternal arm. Although disaster struck and my heart was in unbearable pain, with the support of God’s arm, I could avoid falling.
Usually poetry is composed first and then composed, this song ("Selected Poems" 258; "Saint Poems" 465) is composed first and then composed. Composer Showalter (Anthony J. Showalter, 1858-1924), originally from Virginia. He studied music with his father since he was a child, and later learned to sing from several famous teachers. In 1980, he began to teach vocal music in a music school, and then started his own publishing business, publishing more than 60 poetry collections and selling more than 2 million copies. At the age of 37, he went to England, France and Germany to study sacred music for one year. In the twelve southern states of the United States, he often holds singing training classes. He is an elder of the Presbyterian Church.
At a music event in Alabama in 1988, he received a letter from two South Carolina students, both of whom had recently lost their wives, confiding in him about the loss of a loved one. He did not know how to write a pen to comfort them. After praying, Deuteronomy 33:27: "The living God is your dwelling place, and his everlasting arm is under you." He came to his heart and told them in the letter that God's arm could support us , that the brokenhearted may take refuge in him. After sending the letter, I thought why not make this verse a hymn? He composed the music, wrote the lyrics for the chorus based on that verse, and sent it to his friend Hoffman, asking him to complete the lyrics.
Elisa A. Hoffman (1839-1929) was born in Pennsylvania, the son of a pastor. He graduated from Union Theological Seminary and had no formal musical training, but God gave him the gift of salvation through poetry. He began to compose poetry at the age of eighteen. He has a total of more than 2,000 gospel hymns, and he also composes many times. He was a Presbyterian pastor and also served in a Christian publishing house for eleven years.
Excerpted from - Ancient and Modern Hymn Talk
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God really likes His children to rest in peace. Many times He is so determined to bring us into rest that He often does not answer some of our prayers according to our will, until we finally, in perplexity, turn persistent petitions into humble seeking, until We finally came to understand some of His higher good intentions in our seeking, until we finally came out of that predicament miraculously in the way He liked, until we understood more about rest and could rest more deeply in Him self. Oh, how precious is the rest! Rest is the right moment for a person to be able to live normally, but it is such a rare occurrence in a world turned upside down by sin. How rare it is to see a person who is truly at rest, making people feel that his whole life is stretched, calm, and lacking in everything; making people feel that there is really nothing to add to his satisfaction; making people feel that he is inexplicably There is something in it that must be priceless, and there is something that must be wonderful. Oh, the man of rest is a beautiful man, a provider! Those who rest are those who know God and who are used by God.
Thank God, the rest that is impossible in this world, He not only gives us freely, but also leads us to actually enter and enjoy it. He Himself promises us, "The living God is your dwelling place, and His everlasting arm is under you (Deuteronomy 33:27)" and also: "My peace I give you. . , but you can rest assured that I have overcome the world. (John 14:27; 16:33)” God’s words are never just elegant and beautiful words for us to appreciate, but full of reality for us to enter, because our God Truly, our God is, our God who lives forever and is an everlasting supply of those who belong to him!
This song "Rest in Your Eternal Arms" was written based on God's promise in Deuteronomy 33:27. The lyrics are simple, but the experience is precious:
"How sweet is the fellowship, how abundant is the joy, and rest in your everlasting arms; How perfect is the blessing, how sacred is the peace, rest in your everlasting arms.” —Rest, comes from entering into divine fellowship; rest, begins from being connected to the source of peace. We all have to admit that there is no rest to be found in man himself. Superiority makes us arrogant, inferiority makes us injustice, long-term comfort makes us loose and bored, and sudden disaster makes us panic and helpless. Without God, man appears vulnerable and pitiful in all his circumstances. But those who are united with God are no longer so circumscribed because this union has brought us into the fountain of all blessings, and now God is so practical in our spirit! We really don’t know how such good things can happen to us, but the wonderful sweetness, divine peace, and unwinding joy that we enjoy in fellowship are what we actually taste, and when we taste these, we naturally rest in peace. , can not rest. Those who cannot rest will enter into rest unknowingly here. Oh, too often all we need is not to continue to struggle on our own, to rack our brains, to run for help, but to simply turn to God and ask him to bring us into the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, and ask him to do it to us personally. Reassure and guide the way. Then, miraculously, panic went out, nameless anxiety went out, and fearful words went out, and in its place came a deep and steady rest, a clear and wise sight, a promise of kindness and goodness, and many other things that could not be said. An endless list of divine graces. "In return and rest you shall be saved, in quietness and stability shall be your strength (Isaiah 30:15)"—this is the eternal secret, a privilege that cannot be overturned by circumstances or taken away by the enemy!
Then the hymn sings: "This journey is full of peace in your heart, and rest in your eternal arms; the more you go, the brighter the light, the light of grace is shining, and it rests in your eternal arms." - Blessed are those who walk in rest. ! Rest not only refreshes our hearts, but also lightens our feet. In truth, this heavenly way, this way of looking out to the good land but in the wilderness, if there is no rest in the heart, the feet will be heavy. This wilderness is vast and dreadful, with times of distress like mountains, and times of adversity like swamps. If it were not for "the living God is your dwelling place" and "his everlasting arm is under you", we would have long been discouraged and desperate. But now that the immortal God is surrounded on all sides and fully supported by his eternal arm, we can calculate the cost of the wilderness with another infinite resource! "O Lord, only you can help the weak, and overcome the strong." (2 Chronicles 14:11)", the way ahead is illuminated by your grace, the need is ahead with your almighty supply, and the enemy ahead has your scepter to come Deal, so God, we can rise up and answer your call to walk this way, not only walking, but walking in rest! Thank you for giving us divine rest as a restless enjoyment, which is precious in this disturbing wilderness!
Speaking of this eternal arm, how wonderful! How many times have we felt that we are about to fall down but we have not fallen, how many times we have felt that we are so weak and incompetent that there is a stronger force running inside that tells us to run again quickly. It is none other than His eternal arm. This arm supports the weakest foot, this arm supports the most sour hand. Slowly, we came to understand that we can stand and move by relying on nothing but this invisible but real arm! The power belongs to him!
"What do I doubt? What do I fear? Rest in your everlasting arms; rest with the Lord forever and ever, and rest in your everlasting arms."—yes, what doubts do I have? What am I afraid of? Wherever there is doubt, where there is fear, there I will retreat into His everlasting arms, and here I will still look to His unchanging faithfulness and love. How He used His wondrous presence to remove my doubts and replace them with deeper strengthening and comfort, this time, the next time, every time, He will treat me with the same kindness! I don't know what hardships and hardships lie ahead, but I do know that He has arranged all this for His children to spend more time with Him, to enjoy His rest - oh, this peace is the Lord's rest on the throne, and He is forever So calm, so sure, so honorable, so solemn! To touch His throne is to be at peace, and there is no more peace.
What a privilege to be able to not rely on the arm of man's flesh and blood, but to rely only on the eternal arm of the Lord; what a blessing to be able to walk a path to learn to be free from troubled minds and enjoy more heavenly rest! Lord, our eternal savior, please let us know more of your eternal arm and gain more of your mysterious rest on all the wilderness roads we will experience, until we learn to be "peaceful and secure, without fear", Until we are mature and firm in the rest, until we enter into the rest and open our faces to you forever! Lord, give you the glory and give you thanks!
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