All The Way My Savior Leads Me

Rich Mullins performs “All The Way My Savior Leads Me,” the nineteenth-century hymn by Fanny Crosby. It begins with a question that doubles as a statement of confidence: “What have I to ask beside?” The singer says he cannot doubt the faithful mercies of the one who has been his guide through life.

The hymn moves through the ways Christ provides. He gives heavenly peace and divine comfort, and he cheers each winding path. He gives strength for every trial and feeds the singer with the living bread. Even when his steps falter and his soul is thirsty, he sees water gushing from a rock, which pictures the way God supplied his people in the wilderness. The phrase “Jesus doeth all things well” returns as the lesson he has learned. The last verse looks forward to rest in the Father's house above, when his spirit takes flight, and ends with the line that his song through endless ages will be that Jesus led him all the way. Mullins' plain, unhurried reading lets the old words speak without decoration, and the song suits those looking back on a long life, or anyone who has seen God lead through changes they did not plan.

Green pastures and paths of righteousness are in Psalm 23:2-3. Doing all things well is Mark 7:37, and many rooms in the Father's house is John 14:2.