Songs in the Night

My Dan, 2009

   "...God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night." (Job 35:10)


         Last night, an Alan Jackson song came over the restaurant music system while we ate dinner with our two sons and their sweet wives. My daughter-in-law, Mandy, commented, "I love Alan Jackson music", to which Dan added, "Yeah, when I was in Iraq, if I couldn't go to sleep, I'd listen to the Alan Jackson CD Daddy gave me." The CD he referred to is Jackson's "Precious Memories", a collection of old-time gospel hymns.
        This mama's heart cried, "Thank You, Lord Jesus, for sending my boy songs in the night - Your blessed assurance - when he was in the sands of a desert 7,000 miles away from home! O, what a wondrous God You are!"

      O precious friends, I pray that Jesus sends songs of blessed assurance into the deserts of your lives today!

Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine!
Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine!
Heir of salvation, purchase of God,
Born of His Spirit, washed in His blood.

Perfect submission, all is at rest,
I in my Savior am happy and blest,
Watching and waiting, looking above,
Filled with His goodness, lost in His love.

This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long;
This is my story, this is my song,
Praising my Savior all the day long! 1


1 BLESSED ASSURANCE. Fannie Crosby, 1873.