indeterminate mind

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. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the following scripture from Isaiah sounds so similar to the third verse: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10) Whoever the author was surely had inspiration from Isaiah.   I have often heard the cliché’, two are better than one.   I just was made aware or at least re-aware that this “cliché” comes directly out of the King James Bible. Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.   For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.   (Ecclesiastes 4:9-10) Sometimes we think we are alone w

This blog entry will actually be spread over several posts.   After an experience which is described later in the post I decided I was going to write about the Hymn “How Firm a Foundation”.   It is not a Hymn that I have ever given very much notice before.   And I subtitle the Blog entry “We never sing the best verses” because until this same experience, which again I discuss later, I don’t recall ever singing past the third verse.   Definitely a tragedy since some of the most poignant verses are those rarely sung.   It makes me want to write a whole other article about verse of hymns we rarely sing, but that’s for another day.   I also want to make it clear that I am writing this a one whole document and will be posting over several days.   Also some of the material used has been used in other of my posts, b ut they seemed so appropriate her I decided to re-use them with small changes.   A brief introduction and history…very brief. The Author of this Hymn is unknown.   However we