Is it well with your soul?
Published by Michael Spotts: . on November 2, 2009 at 4:36 PMPerhaps you have heard of a lawyer named Horatio Spafford who grieved the death of his only son, only to endure the subsequent terrible fire which destroyed the family business and ruined them financially. Seeking to ease their pain, Spafford decided to remove with his wife and four daughters to Europe. But sending them ahead by ship, he received a telegram, "Saved alone." The ocean vessel had sunk in the Atlantic taking all but his wife to its depths. It was on the cusp of these events that Spafford sat by the shore under the deafening breakers of sorrow and loss, to pen the lines of the now famous hymn, It is well with my soul.
Can you read his lines and say something of these words has been your experience?
Can you read his lines and say something of these words has been your experience?
It Is Well With My Soul
When peace like a river, attendeth my way,
When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pang shall be mine, for in death as in life,
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
But Lord, 'tis for Thee, for Thy coming we wait,
The sky, not the grave, is our goal;
Oh, trump of the angel! Oh, voice of the Lord!
Blessed hope, blessed rest of my soul.
And Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
The clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
The trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
Even so, it is well with my soul.
Refrain:
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, with my soul,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
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I think that through this we are compelled to deal with the fact that our Lord will be there for us, even at the depths of such tremendous sorrow and grief. If this is the case, then there is no excuse this life can offer us to not worship and praise Him.
Isa 24:15 Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name of the LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
Amen. How little I consciously worship Him, and how weak when I do!
I had no idea about the back-story to that hymn.
That gives me much to ponder today. Thank you.