My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me
On Sunday, my church lost a dear and beloved pastor, Rev. Amin Tjung. Before his last breath, people around him were singing this particular hymn. I was moved to tears while singing this hymn today, in our prayer fellowship. He was really someone, like what Paul described in 1 Thessalonians 1:3 who we will always remember before our God and Father his work produced by faith, labor prompted by love and endurance inspired by hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, even till the last minute of his life. He’s someone who really knows his position before God : undeserved and unworthy. He’s even asked this particular verse to be ascribed to his tombstone Luke 17:10b : “We are unworthy servants, we have only done our duty”. The greatest, most worthy gift from him to us is really a role model of a faithful christian.
My Heavenly Father Watches Over Me
I trust in God wherever I may be,
Upon the land or on the rolling sea,
For, come what may, from day to day,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.Chorus
I trust in God, I know He cares for me,
On mountain bleak or on the stormy sea;
Tho’ billows roll, He keeps my soul,
My heavn’ly Father watches over me.
He makes the rose an object of His care,
He guides the eagle thru the pathless air,
And surely He remembers me,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
He makes the rose an object of His care,
He guides the eagle thru the pathless air,
And surely He remembers me,
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
The valley may be dark, the shadows deep
But O, The Shepherd guards His lonely sheep;
And thru the gloom, He’ll lead me home
My heav’nly Father watches over me.
Quote, not just any random ones
C. S. Lewis from The Great Divorce:
There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell.
