OB 23:14{This is wonderfully inclusive; one should read over all the Epistles to get a view of the things present and future, seen and unseen, the grace and the glory that He has appointed for us. It includes also all the "good works which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them." It will not be our performance of them, but His; for He "worketh in you to will and to do," and "Thou also hast wrought all our works in us." The beautiful old translation says, He "shall perform the cause which I have in hand." Does not that make it very real to us today? Just the very thing that "I have in hand," my own particular bit of work today—this cause that I cannot manage, this thing that I undertook in miscalculation of my own powers—this is what I may ask Him to do "for me," and rest assured that He will perform it. "The wise and their works are in the hand of God!”
Thro' the whole of life's long way, outward, inward need we trace;
Need arising day by day, patience. wisdom, strength, and grace.
Needing Jesus most of all, full of need, on Him we call;
Then how gracious His reply, God shall all your need supply!