Last year about this time, I posted about the CD we’d gotten from daycare as part of our VBS package and how I really enjoyed some of the songs.  This year, y’all, we got another CD as part of VBS and it is WAY better than last year’s – we LOVE all the songs.  Reynolds says, “Momma, will you play my music from bacation bible school?”

Baby, I’ll play these songs until my ears bleed.

The kids cup their hands around their mouths for the first song: He Is the Light

Hands go up and start pumping the air for: I Have Decided to Follow Jesus {this one has a stomp-beat!}

Little pointer fingers go up and they start swaying for: This Little Light of Mine

And they clap for my favorite one: My Hope Is in the Lord

There are a few other ones but these seem to be the four that we hear the most and I’m here to tell you that the best message I’ve gotten so far is the last one I mentioned: My Hope Is in the Lord.

Here’s the video on Vimeo: My Hope Is In the Lord:  the words are there for you to learn and sing along…but here they are also for you just to ponder because they seem so applicable to everything going on in our world around us:

I can’t help but feel a little down

A little worried when I look around

That’s why my hope is in

My hope is in the Lord

 

I fix my eyes upon the God who gives

‘Cause all I need is what I have in Him

That’s why my hope is in

My hope is in the Lord

 

My hope is in the Lord

I belong to Him

He will never let me go-o-o-o

My hope is in the Lord

I can count on Him

My hope is in the Lord

 

No matter what stage of life we’re in – little kids, big kids or big mommas and daddys…our hope cannot be in anything other than the Lord.  Else we would continuously be discouraged, depressed and some of us, even angry.  If we fix our eyes on Him and focus on His sovereignty and purpose, and His goodness, we have joy.  And He tells us that our joy is complete in Him {nothing else.}.

My hope is in the Lord.  With all the mess that is happening in our country and around the world.  I trust that He is good.  He is on His throne {be not discouraged about this!}.  And He is actively working.

Is your hope in the Lord?