Ever since the turning of the new year, I've found myself in a season of reflection. Circumstances, relationships, and simply the dawn of what's to come have prompted revisitation of life chapters past and the lyrics to one of my favorite and most painfully sentimental hymns, It Is Well With My Soul, resonate yet again with heart wrenching crescendo.
Ponder these words with me today, if you would, accompanied by Josh Wilson's instrumental rendition of It Is Well With My Soul. Let's see if we, together, can make a choice this coming year afresh to see that when God is in control and we BELIEVE IT...truly,
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.
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 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.
