Trials of all kinds threaten to knock us off-balance and sometimes off our chosen path. Everything is going well one moment and then suddenly our foundations are shaken. At those times we need to be reminded of truths that will guide us well. If we’ve trained our heart to readily respond to God’s Word, we’re less likely to be thrown off guard. Maybe keeping signs like this around would remind us to step back and view the big picture. Our sovereign God is in control. Keep calm. All is well even though the earth is shaking.
Saying, “All is well” doesn’t make it well. But believing it gives you courage and strength to endure the battle you are currently facing. As the song by Sovereign Grace brightly shares, “All is Well” is the call that proclaims:
- The sun beams on beyond the clouds.
- In the dark grace still abounds.
- Our disappointment comes to meet God’s great mercies!
- His faithful hand carries every promise.
- He never leaves our side.
- Through every fear He draws us near.
- Wrong will be made right.
- All is well because of God’s great love.
I wonder, do you believe God to be true to His promises? Can you see the grace of God shining through the clouds of your present turmoil? Can you see to the end of your disappointments where His mercy awaits you? Can you sense Him drawing you near. Can you hear him whisper to you, “All is well?!”
Draw near. Surrender everything that gets between you and God.
The fears, the disappointments, the doubts, the regrets, the bitterness and anger. Put it all down. Lay it at the feet of Jesus and let Him draw you near to Him. Surrender and find victory. Let it be well in your soul.
Go Light Our World (GLOW) is pleased to support 20 Schemes, a gospel ministry to the poorest of poor in Scotland. Steven and Tracy are just two of a number of individuals in Niddrie, Scotland whose lives have been transformed because 20Schemes workers shared Jesus with them. They were childhood sweethearts who had been through ‘the wars’ of almost 27 years together. Steven was a mess, cheating on Tracy, in and out of rehab, selling and taking drugs and full of broken promises. “He was a rat,” Tracy said. Then one day he rang her out of the blue and told her he had become a Christian. Jesus had saved Steven. “I kept thinking there must be something in this Christian thing that I hear so much about. But in my head, I Christians were do-goodies who had zero time for guys like me. Jesus did what drugs and rehab couldn’t.” Steven recently went through a three-day detox to come off all of his medication for the first time in over two decades.
