{"id":1029,"date":"2011-07-16T08:35:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1029"},"modified":"2011-07-16T08:35:53","modified_gmt":"2011-07-16T08:35:53","slug":"%e2%80%9che-has-done-all-things-well%e2%80%9d-mark-737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1029","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHe has done all things well!\u201d Mark 7:37"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe has done all things well!\u201d <\/em>Mark 7:37<\/a>
\n<\/em>By Octavius Winslow, \u201cThe sigh of Christ\u201d
\nYes, from first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin\u2019s conviction, to the last thrill of sin\u2019s forgiveness, from earth to heaven \u2014 this will be our testimony in all the way the Lord our God has led us in the wilderness:\u00a0\u201cHe has done all things well!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

In\u00a0providence<\/em> and in\u00a0grace<\/em>,
\nin every\u00a0truth<\/em> of His Word,
\nin every\u00a0lesson<\/em> of His love,
\nin every\u00a0stroke<\/em> of His rod,
\nin every\u00a0sunbeam<\/em> that has shone,
\nin every\u00a0cloud<\/em> that has shaded,
\nin every element that has\u00a0sweetened<\/em>,
\nin every ingredient that has\u00a0embittered<\/em>,
\nin all that has been mysterious, inscrutable, painful, and humiliating,
\nin all that He\u00a0gave<\/em>,
\nin all that He\u00a0took<\/em> away<\/em>,
\nthis testimony is His just due, and this our grateful acknowledgment through time and through eternity:\u00a0\u201cHe has done all things well!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Has He converted us through grace by a way we had thought the most improbable?
\nHas He torn up all our earthly hopes by the roots?
\nHas He thwarted our schemes, frustrated our plans, disappointed our expectations?
\nHas He taught us in schools most trying, by a discipline most severe, and lessons most humbling to our nature?
\nHas He withered our strength by sickness, reduced us to poverty by loss, crushed our heart by bereavement?<\/p>\n

And have we been tempted to exclaim,\u00a0\u201cAll these things are against me!\u201d<\/em>
\nAh! no! faith will yet obtain the ascendancy, and sweetly sing:
\n\u201cI know in all things that befell,
\nMy Jesus has done all things well!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Beloved, it must be so, for Jesus can do nothing wrong!
\nStudy the way of His\u00a0providence<\/em> and\u00a0grace<\/em> with the\u00a0microscopic eye of faith<\/em> \u2014 view them in every light, examine them in their minutest detail, as you would the petal of a flower, or the wing of an insect; and, oh, what wonders, what beauty, what marvelous adaptation would you observe in all the varied dealings with you, of your glorious Lord!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cHe has done all things well!\u201d Mark 7:37 By Octavius Winslow, \u201cThe sigh of Christ\u201d Yes, from first to last, from our cradle to our grave, from the earliest pang of sin\u2019s conviction, to the last thrill of sin\u2019s forgiveness, from earth to heaven \u2014 this will be our testimony in all the way the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,64,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-octavius-winslow","category-successful-saviour","category-christ-his-person-and-excellencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1029"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029\/revisions\/1031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}