the Fourth Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
The Lord is not far from every one of us; for in him we live, move, and have our being. Acts 17:27-28. Even the very hairs of our heads are all numbered. Luke 12:7.
O the close, and more than maternal care! Nothing is so mean, but it is under the providence of God, since even the least things can neither hurt nor profit the soul. And how sweet it is to observe his footsteps even in the minutest things, and to be satisfied that we may trust our greater and lesser concerns to his care! O Lord, grant that I may never swerve from, nor do any thing without thee; but that my going in and going out may be always done in thy presence, as if I had to do with none but thee; nay, as if we both lived alone together in the world. O that I could transact, as it were, all my affairs with thee alone, and in all places look upon thee as if thou wast only a God for me. Let me always carefully observe all the inward and outward testimonies of thy providence, so as daily and hourly to have a true sense of thy gracious presence in every thing more or less important; thereby to be ever strengthened in faith, and kept in a composed state of mind, considering that nothing happens by mere chance, but every thing is wisely ordered by thy providential care to our good: firmly believing, if any thing goes contrary to expectation, that something better will follow in its stead if we can only be quiet and wait the time.
God, that must stoop to view the skies,
And bow to see what angels do,
Down to our earth he casts his eyes,
And bends his footsteps downward too.
