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Morning Communings With God; Or, Devotional Mediations for Every Day in the Year
Morning Communings With God Or Devotional Mediations for Every Day in the Year Author:Christoph Christian Sturm General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1847 Original Publisher: H.G. Bohn Subjects: Devotional exercises Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Milli... more »on-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: JANUARY 4. The Christian s Happiness and Fate rest with the Deity. What indeed is there that can disquiet mv bosom, if with a grateful and satisfied heart I enjoy the present, and in regard to the future, place my hope in God ? He knows all my wants, and possesses likewise th means of relieving them. HLs mercy will not deny me that which is really salutary for me. Why should I confide my welfare to men, who are even as perishable as that welfare which I expect from theiii ? Why should I pass my days in anxiety ? My prosperity is in the h. inds of the Lord : he has already fixed the hour when it shall arrive: he has already determined its duration, and how long I shall be glad in it. Trust in him, O my soul, and resign thyself to his wise and gracious governance, which orders all things for thy true benefit. But the future ! -- O ! how sorrowful am I often when I look forward to it!" How much trouble, perhaps, awaits me in the day when I shall be old and hoary ! What if my friends, who are now my comfort, desert me? or what, if a long and painful sickness destroy my health ? Perhaps poverty, contempt, and various other miseries are to imbitter the peace of my remaining days ! -- Cowardly heart! wherefore this solicitude ! The events of the future rest with God : he that rules all destinies has appointed thy fate to thee too. And what destiny, except that which is the most profitable for thee, can b1 anticipated from him ? Granting even that in the future such occurrences as are disagreeable crowd into thy space of life: yet still will th...« less