SOUNDING OUT:
Lean on His Everlasting Arms
I love singing Leaning on the Everlasting
Arms. It provides a beautiful mind picture that
impresses my mind with the privilege I have of enjoying
God’s care and protection. When we did the last
update of our Family Songbook we added Deuteronomy
33:27 after the hymn in the songbook. We wanted everyone
to see the Biblical basis for singing such delightful
assurances of God’s care.
A refuge is a shelter
or place of safety and protection from danger or distress.
God provides a place of safety to which we can retire
for rest and protection. His everlasting arms are arms
of strength and power, which cradle and embrace us.
When He bares His arms for us, we are indeed blessed.
There is nothing too hard
for the God Who made the heavens and the earth by His
great power and outstretched, everlasting arms. There
is nothing too hard for Him; just settle in to His embrace
and get comfortable. Our God is the Lord, Who changes
not. He is not a man that He should lie. What he has
promised He will perform! What do you need? Does it
seem impossible? It’s not impossible to God! Make
Him your refuge! Go to Him for sanctuary!
Luke 1:51 says that “He hath shewed strength
with His arm.” Let Him bare His arm for you..
Psalms encourages us repeatedly to do so.
When we believe the truth
it will echo forth from our mouths. Let’s follow
the psalmist’s lead and say:
What will you
say of the Lord? I will say, “The LORD is my refuge
and my fortress: my God; in Him will I trust.” Let’s
lean on His everlasting arms today.
