Far Better Than All My Fears

By: Morgan Martin

I am not a big worrier. I am usually very go with the flow and laid back… but that isn’t always the case. If I let myself start thinking about future things, my mind starts wondering and planning. I suddenly turn into a control freak and begin to go crazy trying to work and plan towards what I feel is best for me.

I am so thankful that I don’t have to take control of my life and the future. I am so thankful that I have a God that is big enough that He can guide, direct, and lead me to what is HIS plan for my life. All I need to do is cling to HIM. Today, I was encouraged by this word from Spurgeon:

He was better to me than all my hopes,

He was better than all my fears;

He made a bridge of my broken works,

and a rainbow of my tears.

The stormy waves that marked my ocean path,

did carry my Lord on their crest;

When I dwell on the days of my wilderness march

I can lean on His love for the rest.

He emptied my hands of my treasured store,

and His covenant love revealed,

there was not a wound in my aching heart,

the balm of His breath has not healed.

Oh, tender and true was His discipline sore,

in wisdom, that taught and tried,

till the soul that He sought was trusting in Him,

and nothing on earth beside.

He guided my paths that I could not see,

by ways that I have not known;

the crooked was straight, and the rough was plain

as I followed the Lord alone.

I praise Him still for the pleasant palms,

and the desert streams by the way,

for the glowing pillar of flame by night,

and the sheltering cloud by day.

Never a time on the dreariest day,

but some promise of love endears;

I read from the past, that my future will be

far better than all my fears.