As I walked a couple of times in the last month, various lyrics from songs I was listening to penetrated into my mind.
Does this happen to you? You hear a song a couple, maybe a dozen times … you might even sing along to it, unconscious as to what you are singing? Then, all of a sudden, POOF! You hear the words, as though listening to for the first time.
It happens to me ALL THE TIME!
So, when I heard these words, I was aghast that I could have missed them up until now. Especially since they are the words that I would claim as the unplanned soundtrack of my life.
They are words that I sing when I am needing a reminder that no matter what else is going on in my life, in my world there is one assured constant,
the state of my soul is the same.
These words, lyrics, originate in the Horatio Spafford hymn, It Is Well (click link to read the story behind this hymn).
(Whatever my lot,
You have taught me to say)
It is well , it is well with my soul
Theses words have been the soundtrack of my life.
Since my teens years, when I first heard this hymn, they have appeared in my life
just. when. I. needed. them. most.
They have come to my consciousness while worshipping in church, listening in the radio in the car, sitting in a hospital bed, standing at graveyards, walking along the beach … walking not far from my home.
Those words have been present in that original song as well as numerous other songs with the same words, the same message of the reminder that, though so much can change and challenge in our lives, when God has control of our souls that does not change.
Below is the latest song which includes the reminder that “It is well with my soul” … this soundtrack of my life.
It has been the best, most powerful reminder of the reality of my state, in any situation.
Though mountains may tremble and sea billows roll
I’ll sing it is well with my soul
My God is still in control
And it is well with my soul
It is well with my soul
itsawonderfilledlife 