All The Way My Savior Leads Me

All the way my Savior leads me,
Cheers each winding path I tread;
Gives me grace for every trial,
Feeds me with the living Bread.
Though my weary steps may falter,
And my soul athirst may be,
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see;
Gushing from the Rock before me,
Lo! A spring of joy I see.

I have a quick story to tell you about this hymn. Especially this verse I just sang, the second verse. I went on a ministry trip recently, and my friend, Rainey, and I decided to memorize the first three verses of this particular hymn. She made a copy of the text, All the Way My Savior Leads Me, and while we were flying east, we pulled it out and learned it by heart before we arrived at our destination. Over the next couple of days, getting up early in the morning and heading out into our busy day, all the way until we got back to the hotel at night, we sang this hymn, All the Way My Savior Leads Me. 

On the last day as we were driving back to our hotel, and our friend who was driving was flipping through the radio - we didn't know where the Christian stations were - I think she landed on WRBS we were kinda near Baltimore, and they were playing some nice piano music and we thought, "Hey, this is neat!" Well, in less than 30 seconds after that piano song was over, the announcer came on and said, "And now the choir will sing All the Way my Savior Leads Me. I couldn't believe it! Of all the radio stations to have landed on, we hit a Christian one. And not only that, we hit a station that was playing hymns... and not just any old hymn, but of all the thousands of hymns ever written, they played the one Rainey and I had just been memorizing.

We laughed out loud and I said "Oh, Lord Jesus you are so sweet, I can't believe how sweet you are!" I said near tears. What a marvelous way for our Savior who had been leading us to encourage us on that busy trip. He cheers each winding path we tread... He gives us grace for every trial... He feeds us on the Living Bread! And it's a good thing He gave us that reminder, because that night back in my hotel room, I could not get to sleep... it had been a long trip and I was in a lot of pain. But as uncomfortable as I was lying there at 2 a.m. in the night, I was smiling! I kept thinking back to earlier in the day when I was reminded that all the way - even on the hard way - even at 2 a.m. at night in bed -- my Savior leads me and you know what?  He leads you, too.

Music: All The Way My Savior Leads Me. Words by Fan­ny Cros­by, Music by Ro­bert Low­ry.  Public Domain

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