Is It Well With Our Soul?

Psalm 112:1-8

Imagine yourself on a 747 jetliner, 35,000 feet in the air, and the word came from the Captain, "We are in trouble, and the aircraft is going down. Prepare yourself for a crash landing." You are sitting there with one and a half minutes to live. Could you sing the song that the choir sang a moment ago with the assurance that they sang it?

You are off by yourself somewhere and there is a severe pain in your chest and your breath leaves you. Death will be upon you in 90 seconds. What would you do?

Maybe a different proposition - Some one slips up behind you in the service this morning and whispers in your ear, "You have an emergency telephone call." You leave the service and go to the phone. The voice on the other end tells you that your home is burning down at this very moment.

Maybe when you get to work tomorrow morning the boss calls you in and says, "We are making some changes in the company and our plans no longer include your services. Here is your final paycheck."

The doctor calls you and tells you that the tests he ran last week have the worst possible news. You have cancer.

We could give many more hypothetical situations that each of us could find ourselves in, but you get the picture without me saying any more. Let me ask you "Is it well with your soul" this morning? Are you confident that everything is all right between you and the Creator of the universe?

(Psa 112:7) "He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in the LORD."

The psalmist is talking about a person whose faith is such that even when bad news comes, he could say, 'It is well with my soul'.

Each of us may experience any one of these evil tidings at any moment of the day. What is it that will cause us to have a fixed heart about the matter? To be able to say 'It is well?"

I. We Must Be Certain Of Salvation

II. We Must Be Confident In Our Service

III. We Must Be Considering the Second Coming

Some fear the coming of the Lord, because "It is not well with their soul." Why not come today and correct that matter? Why don't you come and make certain your salvation. Maybe you need to come and deal with the matter of your service to God. All of us need to consider His Second Coming. Whatever the need today, why not come and make things right with God. Only then can we say with confidence, "It is well with my soul".