| In His Steps |
Chapter 12 |
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What preparation can we make in advance for trial? For one thing, there are certain great foundation truths which, if firmly laid in our minds, will prove abiding sources of comfort in any trial that may come. One is the Christian doctrine of providence. There is no chance in this universe: there are no accidents. God’s government extends to “all his creatures and all their actions.”
“Know well, my soul, God’s hand controls
Whate’er thou fearest;
Round him in calmest music rolls
Whate’er thou hearest.
What to thee is shadow to him is day,
And the end he knoweth,
And not on a blind and aimless way
The spirit goeth.”
So personal and minute is God’s care that amid all the vast and complicated affairs of the universe not one of us is overlooked or forgotten, nor are the smallest interests of the least and humblest of us allowed to suffer.
The firm fixing in our minds of this great truth prepares us to receive without doubt or alarm whatever God may send, and sweetly and trustfully to submit to his will.
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