“And we know that God causes everything to work
together for the good of those who love God and
are called according to His purpose for them.” Romans 8:28
(adapted from Winslow’s, “All Things Working for Good”)
It is palpably clear and emphatically true that all
that occurs in the Lord’s government of His people
conspires for, and works out, and results in, their
highest happiness, their greatest good.
The gloomiest and most painful circumstances in
the history of the child of God, without a solitary
exception, are all conspiring, and all working
together, for his real and permanent good.
The painful and inexplicable dispensations, which
at the present moment may be thickening and
deepening around your path, are but so many
problems in God’s government, which He is working
out to their certain, satisfactory, and happy results. …
All things under the government of an infinitely great, 
all wise, righteous, and beneficent Lord God, work together
for good. What that good may be, the shape it may assume,
the complexion it may wear, the end to which it may be
subservient, we cannot tell. To our dim view it may appear
an evil, but to God’s far seeing eye it is a positive good.
Oh, truth most divine!
Oh, words most consolatory!
How many whose eye traces this page, it may be whose
tears bedew it, whose sighs breathe over it, whose prayers
hallow it, may be wading in deep waters, may be drinking
bitter cups, and are ready to exclaim: “All these things
are against me!”
Oh no, beloved of God, all these things are for you!
Do not be afraid!
Christ restrains the flood upon whose heaving bosom
He serenely sits. Christ controls the waters, whose
sounding waves obey the mandate of his voice.
Christ’s cloudy chariot is paved with love!
Then, fear not!
Your Father grasps the helm of your storm tossed
bark, and through cloud and tempest will steer it
safely to the port of endless rest.
Oh yes! good, real good, permanent good must result
from all the Divine dispensations in your history.
Bitter repentance shall end in the experienced sweetness of Christ’s love.
The festering wound shall but elicit the healing balm.
The overpowering burden shall but bring you to the tranquil rest.
The storm shall but quicken your footsteps to the Hiding place.
In a little while; oh, how soon! you shall pass away
from earth to heaven, and in its clearer, serener light
shall read the truth, often read with tears before,
“And we know that God causes everything to work
together for the good of those who love God and
are called according to His purpose for them.”
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