Tired of the unending social distancing?
This old hymn speaks to our need:
“Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A weary land, a weary land;
Oh, Jesus is a Rock in a weary land,
A shelter in the time of storm.”
Vernon J. Charlesworth (1838-1915)
Charlesworth understood “shelter.” He served more than 40 years as the headmaster of Charles Spurgeon’s Stockwell Orphanage near London. It offered fatherless boys safe shelter, food and education in a loving, Christian environment. It was a kinder alternative to the grim workhouses where the poor did hard labor in return for inadequate food and minimal shelter.
Lord God, be our sheltering Rock in this weary time, in Jesus’ name.
