Changi Chapel

"The very hairs of your head are all numbered!" Matthew 10:30

What a promise is this! All that befalls you, to the very numbering of your hairs–is known to God! Nothing can happen by accident or chance. Nothing can elude His inspection. The fall of the forest leaf–the fluttering of the insect–the waving of the angel’s wing–the annihilation of a world–all are equally noted by Him! Man speaks of great things and small things–but God knows no such distinction.

Every sweet–and every bitter–is ordained by Him. Even "wearisome nights" are "appointed." Not a pang I feel, not a tear I shed–but is known to Him. What are called "dark dealings," are the ordinations of undeviating faithfulness. He puts my tears into His bottle. Every moment His everlasting arms are underneath and around me. He keeps me "as the apple of His eye." He "bears" me as a man bears his own son!
Do I look to the FUTURE? Is there much of uncertainty and mystery hanging over it? It may be, much foreboding of evil. Trust Him! All is marked out for me. Dangers will be averted; bewildering mazes will show themselves to be interlaced and interweaved with mercy. "He keeps the feet of His saints." Not a hair of their head will be touched.
He leads sometimes darkly, sometimes sorrowfully; most frequently by cross and circuitous ways, which we ourselves would not have chosen; but always wisely, always tenderly. With all its mazy windings and turnings, its roughness and ruggedness–the believer’s is not only a right way–but the right way–the best which covenant love and wisdom could select.

He will impose no needless burden, and exact no unnecessary sacrifice. There was no unnecessary drop in the cup of His own sufferings; neither will there be in that of His people. "Though He slays me–yet will I trust in Him!" "Therefore comfort one another with these words."

Author: John MacDuff

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