"Hallelujah! For Our LORD GOD Almighty Reigns!"

GOD'S perfect wisdom in the management of our affairs!
(James Buchanan)

"The LORD reigns!" Psalm 97:1

The Bible lays a solid ground for our comfort 

when it assures us that all things are under 

the government of GOD. HE superintends 

the affairs of this world, both as the provident 

parent and as the moral governor of HIS creatures.

The Bible declares that GOD created them, 

and that whatever beings HE deigned to create--

HE does not disdain to care for. 

It assures us that no being is so great 

as to be exempt from HIS control--

and none are so little as to be beneath 

HIS regard. And, in like manner, that HIS 

eye is directed to every event which may 

befall any one of His creatures--

with no event being either so 

momentous, or so insignificant--

as to be beyond HIS management 

or unworthy of HIS notice. 

The sparrow which falls to the earth--

is not less an object of HIS regard than 

the seraph that stands before HIS throne!

That all HIS creatures in this world, and 

all the events of human life, of whatever 

kind they may be--

are under GOD'S regulation and control--

is, of itself, fitted to banish that feeling of 

uncertainty and hopelessness which the aspect 

of events might otherwise awaken. 

And how important to know . . .

  that nothing happens by chance,  

 that everything is ordained and appointed 

  according to certain divine principles which 

  are fixed and stable, and
 that these principles will continue to be developed, 

until the grand end of GOD'S government shall 

have been attained!

But, however important this information 

may be, it could ill suffice to cheer the heart 

amidst its sorrows, or to inspire that 

living hope which alone can bear us up 

under their heavy pressure--

were we not further assured that the government 

under which we live is conducted by . . .
  a GOD of infinite intelligence and wisdom;
  a being who cannot err--

    one who knows the end from the beginning; 

    and is alike incapable of choosing an improper end, 

  or of employing unsuitable means for its attainment. 

A persuasion of GOD'S perfect wisdom 

in the management of our affairs is 

the more needful, in proportion as we feel 

our own helplessness, and are taught by 

disappointments and trials--

that our affairs are too high and too 

great to be managed by ourselves. 

And when assured of this precious truth, 

we shall the more readily submit to all 

GOD'S appointments--

satisfied, that although we know not 

the plan of HIS operations, yet it is known 

and approved of by ONE whose wisdom is 

the best guarantee of the universe.

And thus, too, will the idea of blind fate be 

excluded, not less than the idea of chance.

Still the heart desires something more. 

It is not enough that the world is neither 

left to the random vicissitudes of chance--

nor governed by a blind and inexorable fate. 

It is not enough for our comfort to know 

that a GOD of infinite intelligence presides 

over its affairs, and that its laws are the 

emanations of HIS unerring wisdom. 

Great and glorious as these discoveries are, 

the heart longs to know the character, not 

less than the wisdom of that Almighty BEING--

and to be made acquainted, if not with HIS 

secret purposes, at least with the nature 

of HIS moral perfections and HIS dispositions 

towards ourselves. 

"GOD demonstrates HIS own love for 

us in this: While we were still sinners, 

CHRIST died for us!" Romans 5:8  

"Hallelujah! For our LORD GOD 

Almighty reigns!" Revelation 19:6 

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