“OPEN UP YOUR HEART AND LET THE SON-SHINE IN.”
“IT IS NO SECRET WHAT GOD CAN DO!”
Two well-known songs that need review! Written by a bar-brawling alcoholic named Stuart Hamblen, during 1934-1949, this man's life was a mess. He achieved stardom back then as a country singer and actor — Gene Autry and John Wayne, his friends and fellow associates. He achieved this level of success and fame as well.
The constant pressures and demands on Stuart drove him to the bottle as an escape mechanism to cope with his fast-paced lifestyle and all the stressful problems it created. Until one night, in a drunken stupor, he stumbled into a Billy Graham crusade. He was no stranger to the Word of God, in fact his father was a Methodist preacher, but fame and fortune, and pride of life, is the devil’s tool, a useful knife, that brings a good man to his knees, because in all of this there remains an emptiness in one’s soul, that void is purposely there and can only be filled by God Himself.
So when “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,” (1 John 2:16) threatens to destroy a man’s life, yet, if by chance one’s heart is pure, he comes to his senses and understands that Christ is the cure, only He can satisfy th ...
