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JESUS STAYS

Jesus loves me—he will stay
Close beside me all the way.
Then his little child will take
Up to heaven for his dear sake.

This last stanza comforts the anxious, fearful child in all of us. Jesus will not abandon us when things get hard—we don’t need to panic (though we can certainly cling). He will stay beside us all the way.

All the way to where? you might ask. All the way to the grave. And while that may seem like a bleak way to end a song, isn’t it deeply comforting? Just for us to know that the scariest place we can imagine going will not be a place without Jesus’s loving presence! Even if and when we breathe our last breath—whether in childhood or old age—He will never leave us, nor forsake us. He will stay until we exhale and He will be our sight on the other side.