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 Spurgeon's Counsel
ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER
"We know that all things work together for good to
them that love God."
--Romans 8:28
Upon some points a believer is
absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of
the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on
the world's tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it.
That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for
everything. He looks over the raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus
treading the billows, and he hears a voice saying, "It is I, be not
afraid." He knows too that God is always wise, and, knowing this, he is
confident that there can be no accidents, no mistakes; that nothing can occur
which ought not to arise.
He can say, "If I should lose all I have, it
is better that I should lose than have, if God so wills: the worst calamity is
the wisest and the kindest thing that could befall to me if God ordains
it."
"We know that all things work together for
good to them that love God." The Christian does not merely hold this as a
theory, but he knows it as a matter of fact. Everything has worked for good as
yet; the poisonous drugs mixed in fit proportions have worked the cure; the
sharp cuts of the lancet have cleansed out the proud flesh and facilitated the
healing. Every event as yet has worked out the most divinely blessed results;
and so, believing that God rules all, that He governs wisely, that He brings
good out of evil, the believer's heart is assured, and he is enabled calmly to
meet each trial as it comes. The believer can in the spirit of true resignation
pray, "Send me what thou wilt, my God, so long as it comes from Thee; never
came there an ill portion from Thy table to any of Thy children."
"Say not my soul, 'From whence
can God relieve my care?' Remember that Omnipotence has servants everywhere. His
method is sublime, His heart profoundly kind, God never is before His time, and
never is behind."
Charles Haddon
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