He Keeps Me Singing
There’s within my heart a
melody
Jesus whispers sweet and low,
Fear not, I am with thee, peace, be still,
In all of
life’s ebb and flow.
Jesus, Jesus, Jesus,
Sweetest Name I know,
Fills
my every longing,
Keeps me singing as I go.
All my life was wrecked by sin and strife,
Discord
filled my heart with pain,
Jesus swept across the broken strings,
Stirred the slumbering
chords again.
Feasting on the riches of His grace,
Resting
’neath His sheltering wing,
Always looking on His smiling face,
That is why I shout and
sing.
Though sometimes He leads through waters
deep,
Trials fall across the way,
Though sometimes the path seems rough and steep,
See His
footprints all the way.
Soon He’s coming back to welcome me,
Far
beyond the starry sky;
I shall wing my flight to worlds unknown,
I shall reign with Him on
high.
BIBLE
REFERENCE:
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.
Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
Psalm 100:1-2
And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt
call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Matthew 1:21
And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb,
and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.
Luke 1:31
But these are written, that ye might believe
that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his
name.
John 20:31
Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be
baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye
shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Acts 2:38
Giving thanks always for all things unto
God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 5:20
Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in
all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,
singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
Colossians 3:16
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that
our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his
goodness, and the work of faith with power: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may
be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus
Christ.
2 Thessalonians 1:11-12
Luther Burgess Bridgers
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Lyrics & Music
1884-1948
Born: February 14, 1884, Margaretsville, North Carolina.
Died: May 27, 1948, Atlanta, Georgia.
Buried: Gainesville, Georgia.
HYMN
HISTORY:
A Methodist preacher by the name of Luther Bridges,
was born in 1884, he married Sarah Veatch and three lovely sons were born of their union. Pastor
Bridges accepted an invitation to minister at a conference in Kentucky in the year 1910, so he left
his family in the care of his father-in-law and made the trip to Kentucky.
There, two wonderful weeks of ministry resulted. The last service closed with great joy and he was
excited to be called to the telephone. He couldn't wait to tell his wife about all the
blessings.
But it wasn't her voice on that long distance line. He listened in silence to the
news that a fire had burned down the house of his father-in-law and his wife and all three of his
sons had died in the blaze.
That distraught father leaned heavily on His Savior and expressed his faith in God during a tearful
moment by penning these words to this hymn.
‘Bridgers attended Asbury College in
Wilmore, Kentucky. He began preaching at age 17, and was ordained a Methodist minister. He served as
an evangelist in the American South and in mission work in Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Russia. He
pastored in Georgia and North Carolina before retiring in 1945 in Gainesville, Georgia.
Dear Brothers and Sisters
in Christ,
"Thou shalt call his name Jesus." --
Matthew 1:21
When a person is dear, everything connected
with him becomes dear for his sake. Thus, so precious is the person of the Lord Jesus in the
estimation of all true believers, that everything about Him they consider to be inestimable beyond
all price.
"All Thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and
cassia," said David,
(Psalm 45:8)
as if the very vestments of the Saviour were so
sweetened by His person that he could not but love them.
Certain it is, that there is not a spot where that
hallowed foot hath trodden--there is not a word which those blessed lips have uttered--nor a
thought which His loving Word has revealed--which is not to us precious beyond all
price.
And this is true of the names of Christ--they are
all sweet in the believer's ear. Whether He be called the Husband of the Church, her Bridegroom,
her Friend; whether He be styled the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world--the King, the
Prophet, or the Priest--every title of our Master--Shiloh, Emmanuel, Wonderful, the Mighty
Counsellor-- every name is like the honeycomb dropping with honey, and luscious are the drops
that distil from it.
But if there be one name sweeter than another in
the believer's ear, it is the name of Jesus. Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of
heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more
precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our
psalmody.
Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any,
that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music
with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a
drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of
eternity in five letters.