{"id":44022,"date":"2023-08-05T02:30:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/?p=21501"},"modified":"2023-08-05T02:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T09:30:53","slug":"morning-august-5-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/archives\/44022","title":{"rendered":"Morning, August 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Morning<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.&#8221;<br \/>\nRomans 8:28<\/p>\n<p>Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world&#8217;s tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers it. That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus treading the billows, and he hears a voice saying, &#8220;It is I, be not afraid.&#8221; He knows too 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, &#8220;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.&#8221; &#8220;We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.&#8221; 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&#8217;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, &#8220;Send me what thou wilt, my God, so long as it comes from thee; never came there an ill portion from thy table to any of thy children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Say not my soul, From whence can God relieve my care?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Remember that Omnipotence has servants everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>His method is sublime, his heart profoundly kind,<\/p>\n<p>God never is before his time, and never is behind.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morning<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.&#8221; Romans 8:28<\/p>\n<p>Upon some points a believer is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always on the world&#8217;s tiller, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-44022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morning","tag-morning-by-morning","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wellsofgrace.com\/devotion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}