January 12, 2019 (Saturday)
Dottie Rambo wrote gospel music from the time she was nine years old. She wrote over 2500 songs throughout her lifetime, and many have been recorded by hundreds of artists. She wrote I Will Glory in the Cross, He Looked Beyond My Faults and Saw My Need, If That Isn’t Love and the song we are writing about today, Sheltered in the Arms of God.
She struggled with the first line of this great gospel song. The words simply would not come to her mind, but as she walked along a beach at night, she said she felt the hand of the Lord on her shoulder, and suddenly she knew the words of that first line: “I feel the touch of hands so kind and tender.”
Sheltered In The Arms Of God
Dottie Rambo
I feel the touch of hands so kind and tender
They’re leading me in paths that I must try
I’ll have no fear
For Jesus walks beside me
For I’m sheltered in the arms of God
So let the storms rage high
The dark clouds rise
They don’t worry me
For I’m sheltered, safe, within the arms of God
He walks with me
And naught of earth shall harm me
For I’m sheltered in the arms of God
Soon I shall feel the cold from Heaven’s portals
Come home my child
It’s the last mile you must trot
I’ll fall asleep and wake up in God’s new-held arms
For I’m sheltered in the arms of God
So let the storms rage high
The dark clouds rise
They don’t worry me
For I’m sheltered, safe, within the arms of God
He walks with me
And naught of earth shall harm me
For I’m sheltered in the arms of God
Sheltered, safe within the arms of God, oh
Ooh, ooh
Click here to hear Ricky Van Shelton sing this wonderful song. Ricky Van Shelton is celebrating his 66th birthday today!