It Is Well with My Soul

“All your waves and breakers have swept over me.” Psalm 42:7

Good morning, brothers. I am writing this blog on Sunday – the day before “Frankenstorm!” We have no idea what the outcome of this storm will be – but I am thankful that as believers it can be well with our soul no matter what storms we are facing.

This past few weeks there have been so many storms. Yesterday there was an earthquake in Canada that triggered the possibility of a Tsunami in Hawaii. Tropical storm Sandy is threatening to pound the East Coast with horrific devastation.

Last week a friend’s wife died at a very young age from a horrible battle with cancer. In South Jersey a little girl was brutally murdered by two teens over a bike. Another friend was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.

How do we respond during the storms of life? We trust and give thanks. I read this quote in Streams in the Desert – Make it your business to learn to be peaceful and safe in God through every situation.

Horratio Spafford knew so much about storms. A lost business in the Chicago fire. Three teenage daughters killed when on a trip with their Mom.

But out of that storm came one of the world’s most wonderful hymns:

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.

I believe that the reason Spafford could experience peace in the midst of the storm was because He had peace WITH God. He penned these words of the third stanza:

My sin – O, 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!

Years ago I saw this bumper sticker:

I believe that we will only experience the peace OF God when we have peace WITH God. If you have been set free from your sin by trusting in the finished work of Christ on the cross on your behalf – you stand alone in His righteousness and can have HIS perfect peace. You can say with Spafford come cancer, earthquake, or tropical storm:

It is well with my soul – It IS well, it IS well with my soul. Do you have peace WITH God? If not, call me or email me today: 732-350-1187 or bwelte@americaskeswick.org.
Bill Welte is President/CEO America’s Keswick

Team YOU: Jeremiah 18-19; Proverbs 29; 2 Timothy 3

Motivations: Every generation must stand on the shoulders of the previous generation and reach higher. Augustine

Practice to Remember: Level 1:James 2:23; Level 2: James 2:14-26

Powered Up:  We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer. – Oswald Chambers