ALL THE WAY MY SAVIOR LEADS ME[1]
All the way my Savior leads me; what have I to ask beside? Can I doubt his tender mercy, who through life has been my guide? Heavenly peace, divinest comfort, here by faith in him to dwell, for I know whate’er befall me, Jesus doeth all things well.
“Jesus doeth all things well.” It probably wasn’t always easy for Fanny Crosby to believe that. When she was only six weeks old, she lost her sight because of a doctor’s error. “I have always believed,” she said, “that the good Lord, in His infinite mercy, by this means consecrated me to the work that I am still permitted to do.”[2]
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.
This particular hymn was written on a day when Crosby needed five dollars and didn’t know where she would get it. She prayed about it, and a few minutes later a stranger came to her door and handed her that exact amount. She was amazed at the Lord’s marvelous answer to her simple prayer. “I have no way of accounting for this,” she wrote, “except to believe that God, in answer to my prayer, put it into the heart of this good man to bring the money. My first thought was, “It is so wonderful the way the Lord leads me.”[3]
All the way my Savior leads me – oh, the fullness of his love! Perfect rest to me is promised in my Father’s house above. When my spirit, clothed immortal, wings its flight to realms of day, this my song through endless ages, “Jesus led me all the way.”
There were surely times when the Israelites who were wandering in the desert lost focus, lost hope, and probably felt like the journey was aimless or would never end. But God was there: “He encircled them, he cared for them . . . The Lord alone guided them” (Deuteronomy 32:10-12). Can we doubt it? There will come a day when we will look back at everything and be able to say, “Jesus led me all the way.”[4]
The pillar of cloud to lead them in the way did not depart from them by day, nor the pillar of fire by night to light for them the way by which they should go. You gave your good Spirit to instruct them and did not withhold your manna from their mouth and gave them water for their thirst. Forty years you sustained them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.[5]
All the Way My Savior Leads Me
If you have found this meditation helpful, take a moment and give thanks to God. Then share what you learned with a friend. This is how the grace of God spreads (2 Corinthians 4.15).
[1] Words by Fanny Crosby, 1875; Music by Robert Lowry, 1875.
[2] The One Year Book of Hymns, Tyndale House Publishers, 1995, January 16.
[3] The One Year Book of Hymns, Tyndale House Publishers, 1995, January 16.
[4] The Sing! Hymnal, Crossway Publishers, 2025, p. 913.
[5] The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2025), Ne 9:19–21.
