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Yesterday morning, at the Downtown Church of Christ where I attend in Searcy, Arkansas, we sang the song Whom Shall I Fear?
The song was sung as a prayer in honor of the Waldron family—a special request for Hayley Waldron whose husband Harrison is in a coma following a traumatic brain injury in a four-wheeler accident just over a month ago.
The Waldron family has always been special to me since we have worked together in one missions context or another starting back in 1999. Phil and Donna Waldron (Harrison's parents) and I were part of a team that was going to start a church in Bogotá, Colombia, and while that team never materialized, we worked together in Cozumel, México, to establish a new work there. Last November, I had the privilege of conducting a seminar where they currently serve with Mission UpReach in Santa Rosa de Copán, Honduras.
The song is one of my favorites, but I found myself singing with even more conviction Sunday morning for the Waldron family and for others who long to remember the promises reflected in the words to that song.
The sentiment expressed in the lyrics echoes many of the promises found in God’s right hand and are ones that I cling to often (expounded upon in the book, In God’s Right Hand: Whom Shall I Fear?)
So, in honor of the Waldron family, I would like to simply paste below the lyrics to that song as a prayer for today.
You hear me when I call
You are my morning song
Though darkness fills the night
It cannot hide the light
Whom shall I fear
You crush the enemy
Underneath my feet
You are my sword and shield
Though troubles linger still
Whom shall I fear
I know who goes before me
I know who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The one who reigns forever
He is a friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
My strength is in Your name
For You alone can save
You will deliver me
Yours is the victory
Whom shall I fear
Whom shall I fear
I know who goes before me
I know who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The one who reigns forever
He is a friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
And nothing formed against me shall stand
You hold the whole world in Your hands
I'm holding on to Your promises
You are faithful
You are faithful
And nothing formed against me shall stand
You hold the whole world in Your hands
I'm holding on to Your promises
You are faithful
You are faithful
You are faithful
I know who goes before me
I know who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The one who reigns forever
He is a friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
I know who goes before me
I know who stands behind
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The one who reigns forever
He is a friend of mine
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
The God of angel armies
Is always by my side
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“Good things as well as bad, you know, are caught by a kind of infection. If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone.” (from Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis)
And so it is with God’s promises. How can I count on the promise of being like a well-watered garden (Jer. 31:12) if I am disconnected from the source of Living Water (John 4:10, 14)?
How can I be transformed into the image of Christ if I don’t place myself in the hands of the one who can mold and shape me?
Let’s drink of the Living Water. Let’s turn our lives over to the hands of He who transforms.