Do you not know? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and his understanding no one can fathom.
[Isaiah 40:28 NIV]
Worship Leader, Lincoln Brewster, shares about his wife’s illness, and how God is teaching that the Bible is a constant source of reference - a confident foundation, irrefutable, and irreplaceable.
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LINCOLN BREWSTER: My wife’s been ill for awhile, for several months, and I heard a song about seven months ago called “Everlasting God,” and a new worship leader that we hired at our church sang this song, and I was just absolutely mowed over by it. That scripture in Isaiah 40 is such a powerful scripture and it speaks some really straight up truths about who God is. And you know, even last night when we were at the [Hillsong] United service and Phil Dooley got up and spoke, and he was talking about sometimes it’s easy to be overwhelmed with facts. You watch the news, you get overwhelmed with facts, and we forget truth. We forget that truth trumps the facts, and that we’ve got a God Truth that we can stand upon.
So as my wife on different days got discouraged about being ill, and having it be kind of a nebulous thing that the doctor’s go, “Well, it’s not going to kill you, but we don’t know what it is,” to be able to look at her and go, “The Lord is the everlasting God, He won’t grow weak or weary, He’s not going to forget about you, He’s not going to lose his strength,” and have to really hang on to that stuff, those are the kind of things that get you through. It’s a nice thing to you as a worship leader, when you’re trying to inspire people to connect with God, to get up and say, “Psalm 100, shout for joy to the Lord all the Earth,” and the people kind of go, “Uh,” and it’s early in the morning. You go, “You’re not shouting for me, this is God’s Word. Shout for joy to the Lord all the Earth,” and challenge people and know that it’s not your own words but you’re dealing with God’s Word.
So there’s such a—I don’t know if you’re into carpentry at all, but a thing called a plumb line that you hang down, it keeps things straight. You know what straight up and down is, and the Bible is that, I think, for our lives. It’s a plumb line. It’s the constant source of reference that you can always go back to, that’s irreplaceable and irrefutable. So I think it is just a confident foundation that you can always go back to. So those are some of the things that God’s been speaking to me lately on and that’s why I love that song so much.
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