It Is Well with My Soul

1870 – His four-year-old son dies of scarlet fever.
1871 – He loses most of his fortune in the Great Chicago Fire.
1873 – His four daughters, traveling ahead of him to England, are drowned.

After these events, Horatio Spafford sailed to join his wife, the only survivor in his family, and when he reached the spot in the ocean where his daughters drowned, he wrote the hymn “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.

Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
Let this blest assurance control,
That Christ hath regarded my helpless estate,
And hath shed His own blood for my soul.

Spafford's tragic life and persevering faith produced this hymn that has comforted Christians for more than 150 years. 

Truly we are children of a God who is “the source of all comfort.”

“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us. For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:3-5).

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Find the complete song lyrics HERE.
You can listen to the song HERE.
More details: Elisabeth Elliot meets the hymn writer's surviving daughter.

For another testimony in the midst of tragedy, see Divine Crab Bite—Joni's Romans 8:28 Perspective.

 

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