Dear Friends,
Recently I went through an old address book which I was preparing to throw away to see if I needed to transfer anything to my current book. I was amazed at how many of the people in the old book had passed away. A wave of sadness swept over me as I remembered some of them. I am depression prone so I turned to an old hymn written by John Wesley. It helped and I think it will help you. So it is today’s devotional. God bless you.
Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• Isaiah 46:3-4

  Isaiah 46:3-4  ESV
  “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,
      all the remnant of the house of Israel,
  who have been borne by me from before your birth,
      carried from the womb;
  ⁴ even to your old age I am he,
      and to gray hairs I will carry you.
  I have made, and I will bear;
      I will carry and will save.

Isaiah 46:3-4

“Though waves and storms go o’er my head;

     Though strength and health and friends be gone;

Though joys be withered all and dead;

     Though every comfort be withdrawn ―

On this my steadfast soul relies ―

Father, Thy mercy never dies.

Fixed on this ground will I remain,

     Though my heart fail, and flesh decay,

This anchor shall my soul sustain,

     When earth’s foundations melt away:

Mercy’s power I then shall prove,

Loved with an everlasting love.”

[John Wesley]