Men may be wrong; God cannot be. Whatever he does, he wills; and whatever he wills is good. Whatever he permits is for wise reasons– and because he can overrule it for his own glory and the good of his people. All things lie open before him. He sees the end from the beginning. He knows not only what everything tends to, but what everything will result in. In everything he keeps the best interests of his people in view. We may therefore very well submit to his will; not only submit, but feel resigned; not only feel resigned, but acquiesce; not only acquiesce, but prefer his will and way to our own.
Higher than this we cannot get; wiser than this we cannot be. Now all within will be peace, let things be as they may without; all before us in the distance will be bright, let them be as they will near at hand. Happy soul that can bow to God’s will, approve of God’s plan, be pleased with God’s working, and say– “Not my will, but yours be done.” “It is the Lord, let him does what seems him good.” Oh! for this calm, quiet, all-subduing acquiescence in the will of God, that I may wait on him, wait before him, and wait for him; saying with the prophet– “Therefore will I look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.”
