Take That Cross To Glory

"I gotta home in the Kingdom, Ain't that Good News?, I gotta home in that Kingdom, Ain't that Good News?

Gonna Lay Down This World, Shoulder Up My Cross, Take It Home To My Jesus, Ain't that Good News

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The slave singer recognizes that there is a home in glory. That home is good news and presumably will elicit praise in the singer and those who hear. In other stanzas the singer notes that there is a crown in the Kingdom. This is all good news.

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Reorganization And The God Who Conserves

I am seeing a lot of shuffling, organization, and reorganization in my life. Many of you have the same experience. Further, I have set aside some tasks only to realize that I need to pick them back up again.

 I have attempted to go down roads that were not intrinsically wrong, but were not the path that I should be on. I have seen that some plans weren't unquestionably right for me and some steps needed to be retraced. But in all of these things, I am happy that God not only uses our steps, but can also use our missteps for God's glory.

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A Little Talk With Jesus Makes it Right

"Troubles of every kind, thank God I'll Always find, that a little talk with Jesus makes it right." 

 The singer finds herself in the midst of trouble. Not just any kind of trouble, but troubles of every kind. Certainly all of us can identify with the singer.

When our hot water heater goes out at just the wrong time, we have troubles of every kind. When our only reliable transportation has difficulties, we have troubles of every kind. When our children fail to live up to the principles we tried to instill in them, we have troubles of every kind.

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