He is in one mind, and who can turn Him? His measures are never broken, nor is He ever put upon new counsels, but what He has purposed shall be effected, and all the world cannot defeat nor disannul it. It behooves us therefore to say, "Let it be as G-d wills,’’ as long as it does not change our designs and interests, when G-d’s will is His wisdom. It is therefore as much our interest, as our duty, to bring our wills to the will of G-d.
We must study to answer G-d’s end in all His providences, which is in general to make us to walk closer to Him. G-d wills all that men should fear before Him, to convince them that there is a G-d above them that has a sovereign dominion over them. Whose disposal we are under, we ought to have our eyes ever towards Him, to worship and adore Him, to acknowledge Him in all our ways, to be careful in every thing to please Him, and afraid of offending Him in any thing. G-d thus changes His disposals, and yet is unchangeable in His counsels, not to perplex us, much less to drive us to despair, but to teach us our duty to Him and engage us to do it. That which G-d designs in the government of the world is the support and advancement the order among mankind. Whatever changes we see or feel in this world, we must acknowledge the unbreakable steadiness of G-d’s government. The sun rises and sets, the moon increases and decreases, and yet both are where they were, and their revolutions are in the same method from the beginning according to the ordinances of heaven; so it is with the events of Providence. We ought not to expend too much energy or anxiety in trying to guarantee that our actions will have permanent results. Whenever G-d does will endure forever, we can neither add to nor take away from that which G-d has done.
G-d will call us to account for that which is past; and therefore, when we enter into a new condition, we should judge ourselves for our sins in our former condition, prosperous or afflicted to come into
G-d’s full will for our lives.
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