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John Gossner's Treasury
Devotional: August 23rd

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Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. Genesis 50:20. His work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he. Deuteronomy 32:4. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? Hebrews 12:7.

We forget so easily that God is our Father and that His intention is good and fatherly in all things that He permits to come upon us; He can intend nothing evil. How could He who is eternally good do anything evil to us, or permit anything that causes us harm, if we love Him? However much evil men intend against us, as Joseph’s brethren when they sold him into Egypt, yet God means it for the best when He permits such things to take place. Even when the brother is sold, God sees the brethren buying corn from the brother that was sold, who by his stores rescues them and their father from death by starvation. As Joseph is being thrown into the well, God sees that this well is the way that leads to the throne. Every one who trusts in God will experience something similar. He shall at last be able to say to his persecutors, ’Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good." God uses the wickedness of men as a rod with which He chastises His children and makes them good. Therefore, murmur not; do not lose courage; do not doubt the goodness of God when He permits things that no human mind can comprehend. Think always as Joseph and Moses thought: God’s works are perfect; all His ways are right. God is faithful; He is our Father and trains us as children who need chastisement. If we were not evil, God would permit no evil to come upon us; but in this way He would curb the evil in us by the evil from without. By afflictions which in His hand are always good and salutary, God frees us from afflictions.

My Jesus, as Thou wilt!

Oh, may Thy will be mine!

Into Thy hand of love

I would my all resign.

Through sorrow as through joy

Conduct me as Thine own.

And help me still to say,

My Lord, Thy will be done!

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