I remember my mom in the final days of her life repeatedly singing the hymn, It Is Well With My Soul, and it was.
She sincerely accepted God’s sovereign choice to take her home when He did. Being a teenager myself, it was most definitely not well with my soul at the time, but God had a journey of purpose in mind for my life, little did I know.
I spent almost a decade and a half being unable to listen to that song. It was just too painful. But God, in His persistence, would every now and then allow me the opportunity to face my pain. It was only in recent years that I have come into a new understanding of how the Lord works all things for good so that I can finally say, over a decade and a half later,
“It is well with my soul too.” Can I say it again, please? It feels really good.
IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL!
What a breakthrough it was for me the first time I sat through a church service and actually sang out the words to that song!
I trust the Lord now in a way that I didn’t comprehend before. I see more clearly how He knows what He is doing and I believe that He is purposeful and loving in all of His actions. God is always good. He is faithful to every generation!
“But you remain the same, and your years will never end.
The children of your servants will live in your presence;
their descendants will be established before you.”
Psalm 102:27-28
I hope I can somehow convey this important truth to my own children in such a way that they can have the advantage of meeting the events of their lives yet to come with a biblical perspective that chooses to see God's faithfulness in everything.
By His grace, may we come to know how loving and wise He is in all things, so that we can honestly say...it is well.
“In faithfulness you have afflicted me.”
Psalm 119:75
