Dear Lord, thank you for your sovereign grace and the mysterious way you moved in Mesta’s life - giving her a cure way, way back in her childhood! Please continue healing her each day until she is strong again!
God Moves In A Mysterious Way
God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea,
And rides upon the storm.
Deep in unfathomable mines
Of never-failing skill
He treasures up His bright designs,
And works His sovereign will.
Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take,
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense,
But trust Him for His grace;
Behind a frowning providence
He hides a smiling face.
His purposes will ripen fast,
Unfolding every hour;
The bud may have a bitter taste,
But sweet will be the flower.
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
William Cowper
Blind unbelief is sure to err,
And scan his work in vain;
God is His own interpreter,
And He will make it plain.
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Truer words were never spoken. Thank you.
Hey, many old remedies were herbal and not all were inert placebos either. Modern pharmacology, in spite of all the miracle medicines it has, might have its own biases. I say the best of both is the Lord’s good provision.
Cowper is an illustrative figure. He, sadly, never seemed to penetrate theologically past the “frowning providence” to a Lord that actually conducted trials for the exercise to the good of His children, even if the children partly failed the trials. Doesn’t mean Cowper failed to have salvation, or lost the salvation, but this lack of faith and his shallow vision did a number on his spiritual life. He was paralyzed by the Calvinist vision (in some versions at least) of a predetermined damnation for a mortally unknown and unknowable set. This now strikes me as a thoroughly inadequate theology and if I had to assert something it would be a “Calminian” vision. But to some stricken by the ordeal, it comes as a seeming conviction that they have committed the unpardonable sin, and it issues from hell not from heaven.