{"id":41098,"date":"2026-07-30T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T05:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=41098"},"modified":"2026-07-27T17:53:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:53:31","slug":"26-0731","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/26-0731\/","title":{"rendered":"God\u2019s Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Max Lucado<\/p>\n

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Sometime ago I made a special visit to the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. I wanted to see the handwritten lyrics that hang on the wall, framed and visible for all to see. Horatio Spafford wrote them, never imagining they would become the words to one of the world\u2019s best-loved hymns.<\/p>\n

On December 2, 1873, he received a telegram from his wife that began, \u201cSaved alone. What shall I do?\u201d The ship she was on had collided with another ship and had sunk. Their four daughters drowned and Anna survived.\u00a0 While sailing on the ship to bring her home, Spafford wrote the lyrics to a song that would become an anthem to the providence of God. \u201cWhatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say\u2026It is Well with My Soul!\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"Read more\u00a0Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sometime ago I made a special visit to the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem. I wanted to see the handwritten lyrics that hang on the wall, framed and visible for all to see. Horatio Spafford wrote them, never imagining they would become the words to one of the world\u2019s best-loved hymns.<\/p>\n

On December 2, 1873, he received a telegram from his wife that began, \u201cSaved alone. What shall I do?\u201d The ship she was on had collided with another ship and had sunk. Their four daughters drowned and Anna survived. While sailing on the ship to bring her home, Spafford wrote the lyrics to a song that would become an anthem to the providence of God. \u201cWhatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say\u2026It is Well with My Soul!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41100,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41098"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41101,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41098\/revisions\/41101"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}