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It is Well With My Soul

It is well with my soul that is so true but if I was in the situation of Horatio Spafford I could not say the same. Upon investigating myself if I had lost my family I would be devastated.  Spafford was an affluent lawyer in Chicago and sent his family ahead on the trip to Europe during the trans-Atlantic journey they ship sank taking with it his four daughters and nearly taking his wife.  Soon after he wrote this amazing hymn that I cling to in my times of trial and of feasting.  Oh lord you are so great there is no way that my soul could not be well.  You have given me life and that is all that I need, I could live a life of disgrace, poverty, and rejection but the Lord still has done the most amazing thing every.  He has saved me from eternal separation from him!!





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!

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.

Horatio Spafford

All is Great in the Lord from the Theta Xi house.
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