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(Mary Winslow)
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of
them will fall to the ground apart from
the will of your Father. And even the
very hairs of your head are all numbered!" Matthew 10:29-30
How unspeakably precious and sweet it is when we can believe
that God our Father in Heaven is absolutely directing the most minute
circumstances of our short sojourn in this wilderness world! That nothing, however
trivial, takes place, whether it relates to the body or the soul--but is under
His control, in fact, is ordered by Himself!
But how hard to believe this, particularly when things look
dark, and we cannot discern the way we should take. It is, then, the province
of faith to wait upon the Lord, keeping a steadfast eye upon Him only; looking
for light, help, and deliverance, not from the creature, but from Jehovah
Himself. Well may it be called precious faith!
How happy do those travel on, whose faith can discern God's
hand in everything. But I fear the number is very small, who so live.
I cannot imagine how those who deny God's particular
providence can get comfortably on, for they must perpetually be confronted with
minute events in their history, as mysterious and baffling to them as greater
ones.
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