God Promises To Be Enough

88. God Promises To Be Enough

I wrote this song as a part of a Vacation Church School curriculum. Later I discovered that two lines in particular spoke to me personally. One is: God is with you each day. So many times I can be rushing or meandering through my day, engrossed with the list of things to do, frustrated with things that are happening or not happening and I lose track completely that God is with me and I am not living this life all alone. The second line is: When you’re tired and things are tough, God still promises to be enough. Whew! That’s some promise and if I allow it, if I let God into the tiredness and the toughness, God comes through every single time. Part of this song tells the story of Peter in prison—part of this song tells the story of me, in my own self-made prison. God helped Peter out—me too.

You’ll recognize the tune as belonging to an African-American spiritual,

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Hold On

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Peter thrown in prison chains,

Soldiers guarding him in Herod’s name,