Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Poor Little Boy!

It is mercy indeed that he recovered from such a formidable injury. The Lord wounded and the Lord healed.   I ascribe, what the world calls accident to Him. I believe that without His permission, and for wise and good ends a child can no more pull a bowl of boiling water on itself, than it could pull the moon out of its orbit!


And why does He permit such things? One or two reasons is sufficient for us. God allows trials to remind us of the uncertainty of life and all creature-comforts; to make us afraid of cleaving too closely to pretty toys, which are so precarious, that often while we look at them they vanish; and to lead us to a more entire dependence upon Himself that we might never judge ourselves or our concerns safe from outward appearances only; but that the Lord is our keeper, and were not His eye upon us, a thousand dangers and painful changes, which we can neither foresee nor prevent, are lurking about us at every step, ready to break in upon us every hour.


[John Newton]


Hebrews 12:10-11 ...  For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.


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