It is Well

No matter what may come my way, with the Lord I will always say, it is well with my soul.

Your Moment at the Well

The Lord’s insight. The Lord sees your problems. He hears your cry.

2 Kings 4:26: “Please run now to meet her, and say to her, ‘Is it well with you? Is it well with your husband? Is it well with the child?” And she answered, “It is well.”

Psalm 116:1: “I Love the Lord, because He has heard my cry and my supplications.”

In 2 Kings 4, Elijah was sending word asking the Lady he was staying with, is everything ok?  As I thought about this scripture an old hymn came to mind, “It Is Well with My Soul.” But in my view, things were not well.  Her little boy had died.

The story behind the hymn is much like the story of this lady. Horatio Spafford, who wrote the hymn, held onto hope and faith though his four-year-old son had died and then his four daughters were killed when their ship sank while crossing the Atlantic. As he traveled to meet his grieving wife, he wrote the lyrics to the hymn.

“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.”  He was saying, I have some major problems but with You Lord, “I am ok.”

When your troubles seem to be more than you can stand, can you say, “I have some problems but I am ok?”

Because to us our needs can be pressing. We want answers to questions we don’t need to ask. We sometimes cry out to God asking why it is taking Him so long to act. He is God, so we want an immediate solution to our problems.

We probably think that peace is the absence of difficulties. But that is not the way it is with God.  Peace is always available to us, especially in the middle of our troubles. He wants us to know “it is well” no matter what it may be.

It is in our peace that we find the Lord. We know that God hears us when we cry. Psalm 116 is saying to us we should love the Lord because He is very attentive to our situations.  And if He hears us in our troubles, He will direct us in our troubles. He is always at work, working things out for us.

The lady in 2 Kings 4 and Horatio Spafford were steadfast in knowing grief could not have their peace. Even in the middle of their sorrows, they knew things were well. They knew God was working things out for them, so they found the peace of mind to answer their troubles by saying “no matter what comes up against me, it is well for me.”

God told Moses He had heard the cry of His people in Egypt.  He was sending Moses to deliver them from the bondage they had endured for so many years. Jesus healed a lady who had a blood disease for 17 years.  He healed a man who was blind and deaf from birth.

When your time comes and troubles surround you in every way, remember that while the Lord is working things out for you, your response to your troubles is to say, “it is well.” This is not to deny that troubles will come our way, but it is to say troubles will not change our way.

You may have a sickness that lingers. You may have a broken relationship that is difficult to fix. You may need a job so you can take care of the people you love. Whatever the situation is for you, give the situation over to the Lord. Then give your soul a good kick to remind yourself, it is well.

And as you wait for Him to work things out for you, tell Him “It is well with my soul.” Because you know He has heard your cry, you know He will work things out for you in His time.

No matter what may come my way. No matter the length of time it stays. My soul will wait and cry out in faith. It is well, it is well, it is well with my soul.

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