Hold To God's Unchanging Hand
imagine writing the lyrics to no fewer than 695 published hymns. Now, imagine writing all of those hymns while being afflicted with a spinal disease and confined to a bed and a wheelchair for 56 years! This was the life of Jennie Bain Wilson, 1856-1913. “How did you do it?” I would ask her if I could, “What advice do you have for others who struggle daily with physical pain and immobility?” in her own words she answers through the intervening decades:
Time is filled with swift transition— Naught of earth unmoved can stand— Build your hopes on things eternal, Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Hold to God’s unchanging hand! Hold to God’s unchanging hand! Build your hopes on things eternal, Hold to God’s unchanging hand.
Trust in Him who will not leave you, Whatsoever years may bring, If by earthly friends forsaken, Still more closely to Him cling.
When your journey is completed, If to God you have been true, Fair and bright the home in glory, Your enraptured soul will view.
