‘Tis So Sweet

Today as I was catching up on Facebook updates, one caught my eye almost immediately.  He said he had been woken up early this morning, and the song “Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus”, came to mind.  When I woke this morning,  that song wasn’t on my mind, but I felt an overwhelming peace… and love for my God.  After reading his status update, I thought… “yeah, it is so sweet.”

Over the years, I have sang this song… in some of my deepest hours of need.

Being a young mother, I often sang “Jesus, Jesus, How I trust you…” while rocking my daughter to sleep.  I doubt that I was the only one that would look at her child and think… “what an awesome responsiblity it is to raise her.”  It was times like these that I just trusted in God, that he knew what he was doing, and he would help me.  If she was sick, I sang, and prayed… and felt that peace, that only he can give.

When I was on my deathbed in 2003.  That song was one that I heard others singing, and in my mind I was singing it.  It was a time where I could literally feel the prayers of the saints going up for me.  My room would be thick with the presence of God.  I remember my mother sitting in the hospital room with me, and calling her over to my bed… saying, “Mom, their praying… someone is praying… I can feel it.”  That changed my life forever…  He allowed me to live, there had to be purpose, and in that purpose I would trust Him.

Last year, my husband was in the hospital.  I remember sitting in his hospital room, and praying… then, of course, this song would come to mind.  “Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, Just to take Him at His word, Just to rest upon His promise, Just to know Thus saith the Lord.”  I begin to remember the promises, and visions God had given us in coming to Kentwood.  During Prayer Force at our church that Sunday, I remember being in a realm of my own with God… trusting Him.

He has never left me, He has never forsaken me.  He has always proved to be trustworthy!

Thank you, God, that I can Trust in You!!!  You are the only real thing in this world to trust in!  Thank you that I know you, Thank you for being there every time I felt I couldn’t go on.  Thank you for teaching me to lean upon you!

’Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus,
And to take Him at His Word;
Just to rest upon His promise,
And to know, “Thus says the Lord!”

Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him!
How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er
Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus!
O for grace to trust Him more!

O how sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just to trust His cleansing blood;
And in simple faith to plunge me
’Neath the healing, cleansing flood!

Yes, ’tis sweet to trust in Jesus,
Just from sin and self to cease;
Just from Jesus simply taking
Life and rest, and joy and peace.

I’m so glad I learned to trust Thee,
Precious Jesus, Savior, Friend;
And I know that Thou art with me,
Wilt be with me to the end.