STILL GOING WITH JESUS
Aug. 13-99
July
Dear Friends
I’ve known Debra my whole life. I met her in nursery school. As children, we played jacks and dolls and ran up and down the street together. My home was her home and likewise, her home was mine. Together, we graduated from kindergarten and elementary school and junior high. In high school our lives and our interests begin to take us on separate courses, but still, the bond remained between us. Even after high school, when I went to college and Debra married and begin her family, it was evident that the bond of a life-long friendship was still there.
I married right after college and moved away. By then, Debra had moved out of the state and I’d lost track of her. About ten years later, my brother called . . . he’d seen Debra. She and her family had moved near his home. We met . . . The years melted away . . . There was so much to say, so much had happened. One thing was apparent, as we talked well into the night: We had both experienced deep loss, great pain and, sobering regret. I listened - almost in tears - as she relived her experiences, as I learned that even then she was still enmeshed in the weights of life. And . . . I asked, "Debra, what are you going to do?" . . . She replied, "Still going with Jesus, Brenda. Still going with Jesus." Hallelujah! Her spirit was like that of Job when he said of our God:
Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him . . . he also shall be my salvation . . .
Job 13:15,16
On separate paths, Debra and I found the same thing - our salvation in the Lord. Despite our trials - or maybe even because of them - we both found our strength and courage . . . and our hope and joy . . . our "all" . . . in Jesus. Later that week, back home, I penned the words and music of a song, "Still Going With Jesus."
Still going with Jesus, still going with Him.
I am following His lead, and I know I will succeed.
I have given Him control, o’er my life, my heart, my soul.
Still going with Jesus, still going with Him.
(Copyright BWilliamsWaters, 1989)
In the Masters’ Love,
The Preacher,