My dear friend, I can see only the Lord in all this which you are now passing through. I can see no enemy, no injustice to the creature, no triumph of evil, so brightly does the love and wisdom of God shine over it all.
God is perfecting that which concerns you; and these are His instruments of blessing to you, if accepted in His will and submitted to for His sake.
He does not cause all this wrong-doing, but He overrules all, permits all, even causing the wrong-doing of others to be a ministry of good to His dear children. Has He not declared, and will He not perform?
Never did there seem such a triumph of the powers of darkness as when Christ was crucified and laid in the tomb. Thank God, things are not what they seem. It was the hour of God's victory; it was the overthrow of Satan's kingdom; it gave to the world a risen Christ, who lives forever.
Christ feared not to go by that way to accomplish the will of God. So, beloved, fear not to go by the way He is now leading you, even unto the death of self, reputation, and all, that you may rise in all the life of God.
It is not for man to appoint his steps. God in His providence has brought you by this way; accept it as God's will to you; take it as the cup the Father offers you. "The cup which My Father hath given Me, shall I not drink it?" John 18:1111Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? (John 18:11).
The crucifixion of self, and the regulation of all right desires, can only be accomplished by true and perfect submission. The will is the essence of the body of self; and in order to have it brought into perfect harmony with God's will, we must submit to all the discipline of life as it comes to us in God's causive or permissive will.
We, as consecrated children, must acknowledge all as from the Lord. Be patient; trust Him; wait for the end. God will let no enemy, no wrong, triumph over us.