One of the marks of spiritual maturity is the quiet confidence that God is in control - without the need to understand why He does what He does.
- Anonymous -
Submission to the Father’s Will
Father, I wait thy daily will,
Thou shalt divide my portion still,
Grant me on earth what seems thee best,
Till death and heaven reveal the rest.
- Isaac Watts -
Thanks for all
We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good, if bad, because it works in us patience, humility and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.
-CS Lewis-
May God Open Our Eyes
Let us learn this lesson from Nehemiah: you never lighten the load unless first you have felt the pressure in your own soul. You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.
- Alan Redpath -
In God’s Work We Can Be Confident
If my work does not come from God, I would consent to its ruin. I would join our enemies in destroying it if I thought it did not have God as its author, or that God did not will its progress. But if God declares Himself its defender, let us fear nothing; no arm can uproot what God has planted; no hand can snatch away what God holds in His.
- John Baptist de La Salle -
Let God..
Since God offers to manage our affairs for us, let us once and for all hand them over to His infinite wisdom, in order to occupy ourselves only with Himself and what belongs to Him.
- J. P. de Caussade -
(1675-1751)
The Sovereignty of God
God’s own work must be done by God’s own ways. Otherwise, we can take no comfort in obtaining the end, if we cannot justify the means used thereunto.
- Thomas Fuller -
The goodness of God
I miss my wife in numberless ways and shall miss her yet more and more, but as a child of God and as a servant of the Lord Jesus I bow. I'm satisfied with the will of my heavenly Father. I seek by perfect submission to his holy will to glorify Him and kiss continually the hand that has thus afflicted me. ( Written after his wife's death)
- George Muller -
