Everyone is waking up with new challenges every day. I love greeting a new day with five beautiful faces.I can truly say it is well with my soul. But I do think about those of you whose challenges are overwhelming this day and I want to encourage you that God is in control and Jesus really does care.
I was thinking about the Shullamite woman she was given a son by God only to have him die. But when she went to the man of God she knew and trusted that God had a plan. She said, "it is well with my soul".
God healed her son.
Then my mind goes to Horatio Spafford he had five children and then none. God took his only son with an illness. His four daughters drowned at sea, results of a terrible ship wreck. His wife sent a message "Saved Alone" A month later while traveling over to meet his wife in England. He penned these words:
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.
(Refrain:) It is well (it is well),
with my soul (with my soul),
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.
(Refrain)
My sin, oh the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
Is nailed to His cross, and I bear it no more,
Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(Refrain)
For me, be it Christ, be it Christ hence to live:
If Jordan above me shall roll,
No pain shall be mine, for in death as in life
Thou wilt whisper Thy peace to my soul.
(Refrain)
And Lord haste the day, when the 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)
God extends his love and comfort to you in the same way. May we always be able in good times and in bad to say IT IS WELL WITH MY SOULhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horatio_Spafford
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