One of my favorite quotes from my summer re-reading of 'Story of a Pocket Bible' by George Sargent (1857): Call it not accident, however. Reader, in the universal government of Him who, while he guides the destinies of kingdoms and worlds, yet watches the fall of a sparrow, accident is not known.
Tag: sovereignty
Interruptions
"The great thing is, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day: what one calls one's 'real life'… Continue reading Interruptions
Whether for correction or for his land or for love…
He loads the thick cloud with moisture; the clouds scatter his lightning. They turn around and around by his guidance, to accomplish all that he commands them on the face of the habitable world. Whether for correction or for his land or for love, he causes it to happen. Job 37:11-13 This is my comfort… Continue reading Whether for correction or for his land or for love…
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