A Matter of Fact

A great friend of our ministry and one of our supported missionaries (Craig Loftus of The Father’s Ranch) sent this to me today from his devotional reading of Charles Spurgeon. It is so timely and so rich.
 
Read it slowly and carefully, and be blessed or challenged.

Morning, August 5

We know that all things work together for good to them that love God. - Rom 8:28

The believer is absolutely sure that an invisible hand is always on the world’s helm, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it. That reassuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the raging waters and sees Jesus treading the billows; and he hears a voice saying, “It is I, do not be afraid!” He knows also that God is always wise, and, knowing this, he is confident that there can be no accidents, no mistakes; that nothing can occur—which ought not to arise. He can say, “If I should lose all I have, it is better that I should lose than have—if God so wills. The worst calamity is the wisest and the kindest thing that could befall to me—if God ordains it.”

“We know that all things work together for good to those who love God.” The Christian does not merely hold this as a theory, but he knows it as a matter of fact. Everything has worked for good as yet; the poisonous drugs mixed in fit proportions have worked the cure; the sharp cuts of the lancet have cleansed out the proud flesh and facilitated the healing. Every event as yet has worked out the most divinely blessed results; and so, believing that God rules all, that He governs wisely, that He brings good out of evil—the believer’s heart is assured, and he is enabled calmly to meet each trial as it comes. The believer can in the spirit of true resignation pray, “Send me what you will, my God—so long as it comes from You! A bad portion never came from Your table to any of Your children.”
 
Let’s pray this prayer for ourselves, our families, and our brothers and sisters in Christ.
 
Pastor Jeff