Through It All

Seldom is there a secular song with a spiritual message. “Through It All” sung by Andrae Crouch was one. Just let your soul marinate in the words.

I’ve had many tears and sorrows,
I’ve had questions for tomorrow,
there’s been times I didn’t know right from wrong.
But in every situation,
God gave me blessed consolation,
that my trials come to only make me strong.
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus,
I’ve learned to trust in God.
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
I’ve been to lots of places,
I’ve seen a lot of faces,
there’s been times I felt so all alone.
But in my lonely hours,
yes, those precious lonely hours,
Jesus lets me know that I was His own
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to trust in Jesus,
I’ve learned to trust in God.
Through it all,
through it all,
I’ve learned to depend upon His Word.
I thank God for the mountains,
and I thank Him for the valleys,
I thank Him for the storms He brought me through.
For if I’d never had a problem,
I wouldn’t know God could solve them,
I’d never know what faith in God could do.”

These words seem to frame the experiences of us all put in perspective. Jesus warned in this world you will have tribulation, problems. It is not an issue of whether or not we will have problems, the issue is how we are going to respond to them. The words of this song form a template of how we should. A favorite couple of lines reveal a sustaining fact: “…in every situation, God gave me blessed consolation, that my trials come to only make me strong.”

Flex your spiritual muscles today . . . and every day.