I Meekly Leave The Future To My GOD

Thank GOD that HE has veiled the future!
(George Mylne, "Lessons for the Christian's Daily Walk" 1859)

"Since no man knows the future, 
who can tell him what is to come?" 
Ecclesiastes 8:7

GOD'S purposes have all their seasons 
of fulfillment. HIS judgments each have 
their time of visitation. Mapped out in clear 
perspective, your every dispensation was fixed 
from everlasting in the eternal mind of GOD. 

Your sunny seasons, and your cloudy 
days; sorrow and pain, anxiety and lack, 
your every loss of property or friends--
all was designed before you ever saw 
the light. Trials may be in store 
for you, the thoughts of which 
would harrow up your soul--
if you knew they were coming!

All this is known and ordained by GOD. 
What it will be, or when it is to come--
HE never tells to HIS creatures. 

As lightning strikes--for quickness, 
as wave comes after wave--
for frequency; so may trials visit you. 
They are as uncertain as the wind. 

Yet fixed in divine purpose, 
and in performance sure--
they come. From day to day, 
from hour to hour, who can 
foretell his future?

"Therefore, the misery of man 
is great upon him!" Reader, is this 
your feeling? Is "therefore" misery 
great on you? Does it make you 
brood over possibilities--
alarmed at the contingency of woes? 

Would you rather, that all were 
known before, that you might be 
prepared for whatever trials and 
tribulations come? 

Rather, thank GOD that HE has 
veiled the future, and deals out HIS 
dispensations one by one. The time, 
the way, the kind, the circumstances--
are all fixed by unerring wisdom, 
and by boundless love. It is thus 
that GOD is glorified; HIS power felt; 
HIS sovereignty known, free from 
the trammels of HIS creatures' will. 
Matchless in skill; unfailing in resources--
HE thus proclaims HIS sovereign Godhead. 

The world may murmur--
but the saints submit to GOD'S 
sovereign plan. The world may tremble--
but the saints are glad. In all their woes, 
they see a FATHER'S hand, and a 
SAVIOR'S sympathy. 

They would not alter it if they could! 
They meekly leave the future to their GOD. 
The times and seasons; 
the "what," 
the "when," 
the "how,"
the "why"--
they would not, dare not, know!

But these things they do know:
that as their days--
so their strength shall be; 
that HE who counts the stars, 
and calls them by their names--
will heal the broken-hearted 
and bind up their wounds;
that divine comforts shall keep 
pace with worldly sorrows, 
and that GOD'S grace will be 
sufficient for every time of need!

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"Lessons for the Christian's Daily Walk".