Has your need become Jesus? Take a moment and look around. Close your eyes and listen to your thoughts. Is your heart filled with contentment? When Jesus is our need, contentment is the ocean we swim in. No matter what waters we might be in, when Jesus is our need we swim in the beautiful truth of contentment.
Have you given thanks today regardless of your earthly situation? Because when suffering comes our way, and trust me, it will, do we turn to Jesus and say thank you?
“For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake” (v29).Let not one of you think your suffering goes unnoticed. I don’t care if it is cancer or criticism, slander or sickness. It isn’t meaningless. Of course you can’t see what it’s doing but it is doing something. Don’t look to what is seen, look to the One who is the Author of all that is seen and unseen. Don't look to the unknown, look to the One who came so as to be known.
In Jesus and through the Spirit, our Lord God has given us the melody of rejoicing in our suffering so as to show the world what hope, what joy, what love is…
Again and again, “It Is Well” has met and carried saints through the worst kinds of suffering, reminding us of the deep, abiding, sovereign Well at the bottom of our hope, joy and love.
Jimmy Needham recorded “It Is Well.” The passion in the singing reminds us of the passion Horatio Spafford, the author of the song had for his Savior. Listen, be moved, and then move on your own.
Say yes to Jesus because the truth is, no matter what may come your way, when we are in Christ and through the Spirit, nothing in this world can separate us from His love and because of this, we can always sing:
“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.”
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