God's Perfect Wisdom in the Management
of our Affairs by James Buchanan The Lord Reigns Psalm 97 verse
1 The Bible lays a solid ground
for our comfort when it assures us that all things are under
the government of God. He super intends the affairs
of this world both as the provident parent and as the moral governor
of his creatures. The Bible declares that God created
them, and that whatever beings He deigned to create, He does
not disdain to care for. It assures us that no being is
so great as to be exempt from His control, and none are so
little as to be beneath His regard. and, in like manner, that his
eye is directed to every event which may befall any one of his
creatures, with no event being either so momentous or so insignificant
as to be beyond his management or unworthy of his notice. The
sparrow which falls to the earth is not less an object of his
regard than the seraph that stands before his throne. that all his
creatures in this world, and all the events of human life,
of whatever kind they may be, are under God's regulation and
control, is of itself fitted to banish that feeling of uncertainty
and hopelessness which the aspect of events might otherwise awaken. and how important to know that
nothing happens by chance, that everything is ordained and appointed
according to certain divine principles which are fixed and stable, and
that these principles will continue to be developed until the grand
end of God's government shall have been attained. But however
important this information may be, it could ill suffice to cheer
the heart amidst its sorrows, or to inspire that living hope
which alone can bear us up under their heavy pressure, were we
not further assured that the government under which we live
is conducted by a God of infinite intelligence and wisdom. a being who cannot err, one who
knows the end from the beginning, and is alike incapable of choosing
an improper end, or of employing unsuitable means for its attainment. A persuasion of God's perfect
wisdom in the management of our affairs is the more needful in
proportion as we feel our own helplessness, and are taught,
by disappointments and trials, that our affairs are too high
and too great to be managed by ourselves, and when assured of
this precious truth, we shall the more readily submit to all
God's appointments, satisfied that although we know not the
plan of His operations, yet it is known and approved of by one
whose wisdom is the best guarantee of the universe. And thus, too,
will the idea of blind fate be excluded, not less than the idea
of chance. Still, the heart desires something
more. It is not enough that the world
is neither left to the random vicissitudes of chance, nor governed
by a blind and inexorable fate. It is not enough for our comfort
to know that a god of infinite intelligence presides over its
affairs, and that its laws are the emanations of his unerring
wisdom, great and glorious as these discoveries are. The heart
longs to know the character not less than the wisdom of that
almighty being and to be made acquainted if not with his secret
purposes at least with the nature of his moral perfections and
his dispositions towards ourselves God demonstrates his own love
for us in this while we were still sinners Christ died for
us Romans chapter 5 verse 8 Hallelujah! For our Lord God Almighty reigns. Revelation chapter 19 verse 6