When I was in college, I often attended a small church in rural Louisiana, about forty-five minutes from where I lived. It was always worth the drive because it seemed like every time I went, God had a message prepared just for me. Sometimes through the music, sometimes through the preaching and sometimes when I least expected it.

I recall one Sunday the service was coming to a close and the pastor stood up to give the same benediction he gives every Sunday. Every week his benediction was a paraphrased version of Deuteronomy 28. The congregation stood and he started the same way, “You are blessed in the city and blessed in the field. You are blessed when you come in and when you go out. You are the head and not the tail. You are above and not beneath…”

I had lost my father earlier that year. He had died of a heart attack and left so much unspoken between us. When the pastor began to proclaim those words of blessing, I heard the heart of the Father in its words for the first time. And I realized that despite the pain I was feeling, God was for me, not against me. And He was with me. He had never forsaken me. I pray that the words of this song would fill you with the Father’s love and flood you with His peace, just as he did to me in that small church many years ago.