Mar. 17, 2014
by Bob Farrell
Love That Never Slumbers
People have often asked me what it feels like to have superb artists like Amy Grant, Sandi Patty, Eric Clapton, Wynonna - singing one of your songs. It’s superb. And very seldom have I been disappointed.
In 1993 Word Records released a concept album entitled Our Family, with multi-artists, including Roberta Flack, Kathy Tricolli, Wayne Watson, Bruce Carroll - and contained a song of mine and Greg Nelson's, “He Watches Over You”, performed by Sandi and Bebe Winans.
I’ve always loved the message of this song, simply because it speaks to a subject so near and dear to my heart: God’s constant vigil over the lives of man on earth.
Look at this from Psalms 21: He will not let your foot slip - He who watches over you will neither slumber nor sleep - the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
What a rich and blessed promise.
The One who placed the moon and stars
To shine up in the sky
Who holds the worlds together
From His kingdom way on high
Almighty. Omniscient. Omnipresent. All powerful. Eternal. Creator. God’s resume is pretty impressive when it comes to running and ruling His planet earth and its inhabitants.
Is as watchful as a Father
Over every child on earth
He knows the dreams you’re dreaming
From the moment of your birth
The One who made you knows you - like no other.
Wherever you go - whatever you do
He watches over you
He is the One who hears your prayer
Deep in your night He’s always there
Wherever you walk - you’re never alone
His eyes are on your journey till you make it home
And you can know
He watches over you
You hear Him in an evening breeze that whispers out His name
You see Him when a sunrise paints a morning sky in flame
He is there within the silence and the stillness of your mind
You know Him through a cross of love that stretches over time
Nothing in this life can separate you from His love
Even when the night surrounds you
He will shine His light on you
The love that sent His Son to redeem us - the love that sustains us.
That love that neither slumbers nor sleeps.
(lyrics by from “He Watches Over You” by Bob Farrell/Music Greg Nelson, circa. 1993)
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