Article May 16, 1936 Issue

All Is Well!

W. STUART BOOTH

The Bible from Genesis to Revelation teems with assurances that all is well with him who consistently and continuously turns to and trusts in God and obeys His law. Abraham was protected and prospered because he was true to his vision of God and the Christ. Joseph's fidelity to God, even when he was betrayed and imprisoned, gave him wisdom and discernment whereby he earned and received his release and promotion. Although Daniel was not kept from being cast into a den of lions, nor his three friends from being thrown into a fiery furnace, the divine protection realized by them under these adverse circumstances worked for their deliverance and advancement. Thus the writer of the ninety-first Psalm was inspired to voice that wonderfully assuring message which promises protection from pestilence and plague, and deliverance from destruction and death, to those who dwell in the knowledge of Truth.

It is evident that Christ Jesus was familiar with the Psalms as well as with the history of Abraham, Jacob, Moses, Elijah, and the other patriarchs and prophets, and that he found encouragement and assurance therein. Certainly the experiences and victories of the Master proved that everything worked for his advantage and good. After demonstrating the omnipresence and omnipotence of God in the healing of sickness and sin and in the mastering of death for others, Jesus submitted to crucifixion, a form of punishment and execution which was usually meted out to the vilest of criminals. The great Master, however, turned what appeared to be an hour of degradation and defeat into a time of triumph. Even when he was supposed to be dead in the tomb, all was well with him, for he was working out the problem of being; his emergence from the tomb proved life to be immortal, dependent upon God alone.

After a number of years of missionary work, of preaching the gospel and healing the sick, during which time he had been imprisoned and otherwise persecuted, the Apostle Paul was thoroughly persuaded that the law of Love is ever operative on behalf of God's children. In that wonderful spiritual message, his epistle to the Romans, he writes, "We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose." The recognition of the fact that all things were working together for his good protected Paul from discouragement and doubt, and kept his thought so expectant of good that when he was shipwrecked on the island of Melita he was able to heal the father of Publius, the ruler, who was suffering with fever and hemorrhage; "so when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed."

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