Wednesday, July 09, 2008

• It is Well With My Soul...

  Currently Reading Amazing Grace: 366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions (2nd Edition) By Kenneth W. Osbeck see related

      Ask yourself if you can truthfully say "It is well with my soul," no matter what the circumstance may be that surround you.  Can you answer it?  I can!  I can truly say, it is well with my soul.  I never thought I would get to this point, but I have made it this far, it is well with my soul oh Lord, and I know You are in control!  I have been praying alot lately, for many different things, God has once again given me that peace beyond all understanding... I know he is in control, and I can let go.  It's hard letting go that first few times.  Gripping things so tight that your knuckles are white, clenching your teeth and holding on until your muscles ache.  And for what?  Are you really HAPPY with those things???  Why are you still holding on to the things that make your life hell??? 
  LET GO LET GOD and then you can say it is well with my soul!!
  
  

  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, with my soul,
  It is well, 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!
  

  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.
  

  Horatio Spafford

  - Words by Horatio G. Spafford, 1873
  - Music by Philip P. Bliss, 1876
  

  It Is Well with My Soul is a very influential hymn penned by hymnist Horatio Spafford and composed by Philip Bliss.

  This hymn was written after several traumatic events in Spafford’s life. The first was the death of his only son in 1871, shortly followed by the great Chicago Fire which ruined him financially (he had been a successful lawyer). Then in 1873, he had planned to travel to Europe with his family on the S.S. Ville Du Havre, but sent the family ahead while he was delayed on business. While crossing the Atlantic, the ship sank rapidly after a collision with another ship, and all four of Spafford's daughters died. His wife Anna survived and sent him the now famous telegram, "Saved alone." Shortly afterwards, as Spafford traveled to meet his grieving wife, he was inspired to write these words as his ship passed near where his daughters had died.

  The Spaffords later had three more children, one of whom (a son) died in infancy. In 1881 the Spaffords, including baby Bertha and newborn Grace, set sail for Palestine. The Spaffords moved to Jerusalem and helped found a group called the American Colony; its mission was to serve the poor. The colony later became the subject of the Nobel prize winning Jerusalem, by Swedish novelist Selma Lagerlöf. (copied info from Wikipedia)
  

  
  
  
  

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