Do you ever have a moment when a scripture or a hymn that is just so familiar to you strikes you in a new way?

This happened to me recently. I was stressing out about a whole bunch of things, a list too long and gruesome to remember now, and in sacrament meeting that week we sang "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet." If EVER there were a hymn that I could sing in my sleep, it would be that one. I still get a little shiver when we sing it in the presence of the living prophet, but it doesn't do all that much for me in other contexts anymore.

Except that day, when one line just LEAPT out at me:

"We doubt not the Lord nor His goodness; we've proved Him in days that are past."

What a powerful reminder that was to me that I had been so blessed, in the very areas about which I was worrying, for so many years - why would the Lord abandon me now? The simple answer was that He wouldn't. He didn't.

Is that why the prophets all through the scriptures are always reminding people of the events of their history, like Moses parting the Red Sea or Lehi being led out of Jerusalem? Maybe that's just another way of saying, "Why are you doubting the Lord or His goodness; haven't you already proved Him?"

Anyway, it's enough to keep me going to church and singing all those familiar hymns and listening to familiar lessons on familiar topics. I never know when the Spirit might have a particular message for me!