What a compassionate, gracious
arrangement. By Susanna Spurgeon. Psalm 31,
verse 15. My times are in your hand. Why
then, need I worry or tremble? That great, loving, powerful
hand keeps all the events of my life sealed and secure within
its almighty clasp. Only He, my Maker and my Master,
can permit them to be revealed to me as His will for me. What a compassionate, gracious
arrangement! How eminently fitted to fulfill
that sweet promise of His Word! You will keep Him in perfect
peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because He trusts in You. If we fully believed this, then
we would be absolutely devoid of the worry which corrodes and
chafes the daily life of so many professing Christians. My Times
Not one or two important epochs of my history only, but everything
that concerns me, joys that I had not expected, sorrows that must
have crushed me if they could have been anticipated, sufferings
which might have terrified me by their grimness, Surprises
which infinite love had prepared for me, services of which I could
not have imagined myself capable, all these lay in that mighty
hand as the purposes of God's eternal will for me. But as they
have developed gradually and silently, how great has been
the love which appeared, enwrapping and enfolding each one. Has not
the grief been measured? while the gladness has far more
abounded? Have not the comforts and consolations
exceeded the crosses and afflictions? Have not all things been so arranged,
ordered and undertaken and worked out on our behalf that we can
but marvel at the goodness and wisdom of God in meeting out
from that dear hand of His all the times that have passed over
us? You agree with me in all this,
do you not, dear reader? Then I beg you to apply it to
your present circumstances, however dark or difficult they may be.
They have come directly from your Father's hand to you, and
they are His dear will for you. We know that God causes all things
to work together for good, to those who love God, to those
who are called according to His purpose. Romans chapter 8 verse
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