{"id":830,"date":"2011-07-15T04:44:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=830"},"modified":"2011-07-15T04:44:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T04:44:49","slug":"providential-overruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=830","title":{"rendered":"PROVIDENTIAL OVERRULING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PROVIDENTIAL OVERRULING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.\u201d \u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Romans%208.28\">Romans 8:28<\/a><br \/>\nMy soul! Be still! You are in the hands of your Covenant God. Were all the strange circumstances in your history the result of accident, or chance, you might well be overwhelmed. But \u201call things,\u201d and this thing (be what it may) which may be now disquieting you, is one of these \u201call things\u201d that are so working mysteriously for your good. Trust your God! He will not deceive you\u2014your interests are with Him in safe custody. When sight says, \u201cAll these things are against me,\u201d let faith rebuke the hasty conclusion, and say, \u201cShall not the Judge of all the earth do right?\u201d How often does God hedge up your way with thorns, to elicit simple trust! How seldom can we see all things so working for our good! But it is better discipline to believe it. Oh! for faith amid frowning providences, to say, \u201cI know that your judgments are good;\u201d and, relying in the dark, to exclaim, \u201cThough He slays me, yet will I trust Him!\u201d<br \/>\nBlessed Jesus! to You are committed the reins of this universal empire. The same hand that was once nailed to the cross, is now wielding the scepter on the throne\u2014\u201dall power in heaven and in earth is given unto you.\u201d How can I doubt the wisdom, and the faithfulness, and love, of the most mysterious earthly dealing, when I know that the Roll of Providence is thus in the hands of Him who has given the mightiest pledge Omnipotence could give of His tender interest in my soul\u2019s well-being, by giving Himself for me?<br \/>\nby John MacDuff, 1849<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENTIAL OVERRULING \u201cAll things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.\u201d \u2014Romans 8:28 My soul! Be still! You are in the hands of your Covenant God. Were all the strange circumstances in your history the result of accident, or chance, you might well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-believers-assurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830","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=830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":832,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830\/revisions\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}