I’m still basking in the glow of Easter…awestruck that my soul is secure because of what Jesus did at Calvary. The hymn by Horatio Spafford, “It Is Well With My Soul,” has repeatedly played in my mind, so I decided to give it my full focus this week in our devotions.

The Apostle Paul, while in a prison cell!, wrote to the believers in Philippi, “I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances.” Contentment in a prison cell… How was this possible? Paul had learned that his contentment wasn’t contingent upon his circumstances; contentment was contingent upon his relationship with Christ. Spafford had apparently learned this truth, too, because he wrote these words after the heartbreaking loss of his business to fire, his son to sickness, and his four daughters to drowning. Whatever my lot—whether joyful, grief-stricken, confused, bored…—may my song be, “It is well with my soul.”