The following quote is from a friend in response to my last post. It was a blessing to me and I am sure it will be a blessing to you. Thank you Andrew. God is choosing in His sovereignty to allow many things to happen this week, many of which I am not aware of as I write this. What I do know is that Mary has an appointment on Tuesday, doctors and family felt a pulse in Jeff’s foot, Emily’s parents are happy with the care at Cedar Sinai, and my parents are in California to discuss plans for Arnita (my grandma) who is battling cancer. Please continue to pray that believers involved will follow Christ’s command to ‘cast our cares upon Him” and not let fear overtake us. That is how we can be salt and light.
“I am persuaded that the doctrine of God’s sovereignty is one
of the ‘softest pillows’ upon which the Christian can lay
his head, and one of the ‘strongest staffs’ upon which
he may lean, in his pilgrimage along this rough road.
Cheer up, Christian!
Things are not left to chance!
No blind fate rules the world!
God has purposes, and those purposes are fulfilled!
God has plans, and those plans are wise,
and never can be broken!
Your trials always come to you at the right moment–
The language of your faith should be, “Great God, I leave my
times and seasons in your hand, for well I know if you smite me
again and again, and again, it is that you may multiply blessings
to me, that my manifold trials may produce in me manifold
blessings.”
So be of good cheer, my hearer. He knows when your strength
is spent, and you are ready to perish, then shall the Sun
of Righteousness arrive with healing beneath his wings.
Your deliverances from trouble shall always come to you in
time enough; but they shall never come too soon, lest you
be proud in your heart.
Learn, believer, to be resigned to God’s will.
Learn to leave all things in his hand.
Tis pleasant to float along the ‘stream of providence’.
There is no more blessed way of living, than the
life of faith upon a covenant-keeping God–
to know that we have no care, for he cares for us;
that we need have no fear, except to fear him;
that we need have no troubles, because we have cast our burdens
upon the Lord, and are conscious that he will sustain us.”
- Spurgeon
