I don’t know about you, but I love the Word of God, and I am not ashamed to admit it. Now that I’ve gotten that out of the way, I can tell you that, for me, there’s nothing like a good worship service where the choir starts singing, and the Holy Spirit comes in.
It’s nothing like those days when the choir starts singing songs that speak to your circumstances, and then the song reminds you of how good God is. The song reminds you that God is going to make whatever you are going through, alright.
I think about the song “We Will Understand It Better By and By” by Charles Albert Tindley in 1905. The beat gets your feet moving, and the songstress usually starts the song acapella, telling us how they got tossed and driven by life. The songstress references the bad weather we face and then moves on to tell us that those dark skies are a foretelling of sunshine, and if we just hold on, we will understand it better by and by. Then the choir joins in on a tight beat and sings the hook about overcoming.
1. We are often tossed and driv'n on the restless sea of time; Somber skies and howling tempests oft succeed a bright sunshine; In that land of perfect day, when the mists have rolled away, We will understand it better by and by. Refrain: By and by, when the morning comes, All the saints of God are gathered home, We will tell the story of how we've overcome, We will understand it better by and by.
Yeah, baby, that’s it. Now, sitting in the audience, we are on our feet singing loudly about how we will tell our story of how we made it over, and we will all understand it better by and by. Did I say loudly? Lol.
I used to sing the song and enjoy it; then I lived a little bit. After life grabbed me and shook my soul, I learned to sing it from my soul. Now I have a complete understanding that we WILL understand it better by and by, and that we will tell our story of how we overcame.
I used to wonder why things didn’t work out the way I wanted them to. I would get upset and question God’s love for me. I used to wonder why I didn’t get that promotion until God showed me that I wasn’t ready for it. When I was ready, I got the promotion, and it was better than I imagined. I was able to be successful. God helped me understand that had I got it before I was ready, I would have failed. That’s the bye and bye.
I think about when my marriage was out of alignment. Everything failed, and I mean everything, until we got right with God. My relationships were failing until we gave them to God. Once we committed to God, our marriage prospered. God showed me why it was failing; that’s the bye and bye. I’ll be transparent: it was failing because I made my husband my God, and I was out of alignment. God showed me that once the alignment was right, we could be stronger than ever, and my marriage is something I used to dream and pray about. The bye and bye…
“The Lord says, “My thoughts are not like yours. Your ways are not like mine. Just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so my ways are higher than your ways, and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts. “Rain and snow fall from the sky and don’t return until they have watered the ground. Then the ground causes the plants to sprout and grow, and they produce seeds for the farmer and food for people to eat. In the same way, my words leave my mouth, and they don’t come back without results. My words make the things happen that I want to happen. They succeed in doing what I send them to do. “So you will go out from there with joy. You will be led out in peace. When you come to the mountains and hills, they will begin singing. All the trees in the fields will clap their hands.” Isaiah 55:8-12 ERV
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