‘Tis So Sweet To Trust In Jesus
“Praise the LORD. How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and fitting to praise him! The LORD builds up Jerusalem; he gathers the exiles of Israel. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3
Louisa Stead had always felt a calling to be a missionary and go to China but due to fragile health, she was kept home in the US.
She married and started a family, and when her daughter was four years old, the family went on vacation to a nearby beach. While there, they saw a young boy drowning in the ocean. Louisa’s husband swam out and tried to rescue him, but he was pulled under by the boy, and both he and the boy drowned as Louisa and her daughter watched from shore.
Louisa was left without any means of financial support, and she and her daughter were in dire poverty.
One day in 1882, when there was no food in the house and no money, Louisa opened the front door to find that someone had left groceries and money sitting there for her
That same day, she sat down and wrote: “Tis so Sweet to Trust in Jesus.” She and her daughter later became missionaries to Africa, and she remarried.
It is sweet to trust in Jesus!
Trust in Him!
“Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him! How I’ve proved Him o’er and o’er Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus! Oh, for grace to trust Him more!” – Louisa Stead
“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.” Psalm 34:18