God
does not work without a plan! God has not left the world to chance.
There
are some men who are always kicking against the plan of an eternal purpose, and
who grow angry if you assert that God has settled what shall occur.
It is
by the consent of all agreed that men are foolish if they work without a plan,
and yet they cry out when we insist that God also, in all His working, is
fulfilling a well arranged plan.
Depend
upon it, however, let men rebel against this truth as they will, that God has
determined the end from the beginning. He has left no screw loose in the
machine, He has left nothing to chance or accident.
Nothing
with God is the subject of an “if” or a “peradventure,” but even the agency of
man, free as it is, as untouched and undisturbed as if there were no God, even
this is guided by His mysterious power, and works out thoroughly His own
purpose in every jot and tittle.
God
wings the thunderbolt, and shall he not guide the most passionate spirit? God
puts a bit in the mouth of the whirlwind, and shall He not control the most
ambitious will?
God
takes care that even the sea shall come no farther than He bids it, and shall
not the heart of man be equally subject to the Divine purpose?
Yielding
to man his free agency, giving to him his responsibility, leaving him as free
as if there were no purpose and no decree, yet the eternal Jehovah works out
His plans, and achieves His purpose to the praise of His glory.
Everything
that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and
shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy,
just, wise, and unalterable purpose!
God is
wonderful in His design and excellent in His working. Believer, God rules over
all things for your good. The needs-be for all that you have suffered, has been
most accurately determined by God.
Your
course is all mapped out by your Lord. Nothing will take Him by surprise. There
will be no novelties to Him. There will be no occurrences which He did not
foresee, and for which, therefore, He has not provided. He has arranged all,
and you have but to patiently wait, and you shall sing a song of deliverance.
Your
life has been arranged on the best possible principles, so that if you had been
gifted with unerring wisdom, you would have arranged a life for yourselves
exactly similar to the one through which you have passed.
Let us
trust God where we cannot trace Him.
In the
end we shall read the whole of God’s purpose as one grand poem, and there will
not be one verse in it that has a syllable too much, or a word too little.
There will not be one stanza or letter redundant, much less one that is erased.
But from the beginning to the end we shall see the master pen and the
master-mind drawing forth the glorious array of majestic thoughts. And with
angels, and seraphs, and principalities, and powers—shall burst forth into one
mighty song:
“Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! The Lord God Omnipotent reigns!” We shall see how from
the first even to the last, the King has been ruling all things according to
His own will.
-Charles
Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892 British Prince of Preachers
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