WHEREVER we may look, we can see the provision that God has made for His creatures, and our picture today reminds us of it. The shady, cool retreat for the cocas, and the running stream for their refreshment, speak to us of God’s tender and wise care.
Have you thought, dear reader, how tenderly and graciously God cares for you, and supplies your needs—giving you food and clothing, health and strength, yes, all you have? But, perhaps, some who read these lines may say, “I do not have health and strength; I do not have all I need.”
If God has withheld these things from you, have you thought why He has done so? Perhaps you have not been thankful in the past for all His mercies, or it may be, He wants you to think more of eternal things.
There is one thing we may be sure of, and that is, He has some lesson to teach you, and if you quietly submit, He will you in time what He has for you.
It may be, you have not yet confessed the Lord Jesus as your Savior. If that is the case, whether you have many blessings of this life, or are deprived of them, I beg of you, do accept of God’s greatest expression of His love in giving His Son to die for you, so that you may have eternal life through Him.
O! dear reader, believe in Him now, if you have not done so in the past, and then you shall know the preciousness of that verse, “He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things,” Rom. 8:3232He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? (Romans 8:32).
He will give us all things according to His love and wisdom, but not according to the desires of our natural hearts.
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