Undisturbed

Oh how I wish I could post lyrics to songs on this blog! I don't wish to sell, take credit, or any other awful motive there could be. I only wish to encourage and inspire with what has encouraged me. Songs are one of my favorite things, singing one of the most enriching experiences, lyrics one of my best encouragers. And I can only share snipets and hope you know what I am talking about! This past Sunday the church came together and sang "It Is Well With My Soul." An old favorite, known by heart. But there are so many songs, you don't think to sing every one every day. This week, this has been the song for every day.

It's been my desire to understand what a gentle and quiet spirit really is. Peter writes wives to pursue, "the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit." It is of great price to God. This has been a wonder, a ponder, a study for a few years now. I find myself going extremes sometimes, in situations requiring this meekness and quietness, not understanding completely what this picture is. (Still to this day, not fully comprehending it, yet farther along) Well, just recently I have been delving into the Strong's concordance and finding what the scriptures mean, for myself. Often I just find that it is what I thought it was. A storm is really a storm, you know? But there are words I never gave thought to or learned to see what it meant. So I looked up quiet.

When I think of quiet, I think of whispering. I think of calmness too. But mostly whispering. So as I embarked on my journey, I found out where quiet comes from. Pretty easy process, too simple of findings to some, but this was wonderful to me! It was eye-opening to find that a quiet spirit is one that is steadfast, still, undisturbed, and peaceable. Undisturbed. Now I can see that. It gave me a picture of what spirit this is. That is so revealing to me.

When I think of the calling to have a meek and quiet spirit, I realize I am called to have a spirit undisturbed, untouched by trouble. In some sense, unaffected by what happens to and about me. I love that. That my direction, my goal, my determination should be steadfast, unmoved, no matter the changes, circumstances about me. In that picture of a quiet spirit, I see calm. I see peace. I see strength.

And 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.

Undisturbed. Of great price in God's sight.