It's Going To Get Better

Romans 8:37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

1 John 5:4 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: and this is the victory that overcometh the world, [even] our faith.

John 12:31 Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;

In 1874, a large French steamer called the Ville de Havre was on a homeward voyage from America when a collision with a sailing vessel took place. The damage to streamer was considerable, and as a result it sank quickly with loss of nearly all who had been on board. One passenger, Mrs. Horatio G. Spafford, the wife of a lawyer in Chicago, had been en route to Europe with her four children and prayed that they might be saved or, if not, that they might be willing to die, if that was God’s will. When the ship went down, the children were all lost. Mrs. Spafford was rescued by a sailor who had been rowing over the spot where the ship had sunk and found her floating in the water. Ten days later, when she reached Cardiff, she sent her husband the message: “Saved alone.” This was a great a blow, a great sadness hardly comprehensible to anyone who has not lost a child. But though a great shock, it did not destroy the peace that either of the parents, who were both Christians, had from Jesus. Thus, instead of giving vent to bitterness or defeat, Spafford wrote as a testimony of the grace of God in his experience:

“When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,

When sorrows like sea-billows roll;

Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,

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 should.”

(Taken form the The Gospel of John, Commentary, pp.329, 330, James Boice).