Few

Few things, few people, few promises can be relied upon in the world today.

Governments are corrupt.
Politicians are liars.
Truth is exchanged for lies.
Pleasure unseats responsibility.
Despair overcomes hope.

Man is seeing the dark realities of his own disregard for the immutable law of God and he does not like the new reality before his eyes.

Yet in this condition of gloom, brought on by his abandonment of faith in Christ in exchange for the pleasures of this world, man will yet find the Savior who left Heaven so he may gain Heaven to be faithful to His promises.

       HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION  Keen, Kirkham, Keith

How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord,
Is laid for your faith in His excellent Word!
What more can He say than to you He hath said,
You, who unto Jesus for refuge have fled?

In every condition, in sickness, in health;
In poverty’s vale, or abounding in wealth;
At home and abroad, on the land, on the sea,
As thy days may demand, shall thy strength ever be.

Fear not, I am with thee, O be not dismayed,
For I am thy God and will still give thee aid;
I’ll strengthen and help thee, and cause thee to stand
Upheld by My righteous, omnipotent hand.

When through the deep waters I call thee to go,
The rivers of woe shall not thee overflow;
For I will be with thee, thy troubles to bless,
And sanctify to thee thy deepest distress.

When through fiery trials thy pathways shall lie,
My grace, all sufficient, shall be thy supply;
The flame shall not hurt thee; I only design
Thy dross to consume, and thy gold to refine.

Even down to old age all My people shall prove
My sovereign, eternal, unchangeable love;
And when hoary hairs shall their temples adorn,
Like lambs they shall still in My bosom be borne.

The soul that on Jesus has leaned for repose,
I will not, I will not desert to its foes;
That soul, though all hell should endeavor to shake,
I’ll never, no never, no never forsake.