p. 119 | Learn Resignation

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 25, 1873

Learn Resignation.

Learn resignation under afflictive dispensations, either in crossing your schemes, or in reducing your resources. “Because they have no changes, therefore, they fear not God.” It was said of Moab, “Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remains of him, and his scent is not changed.” The prodigal was more favored—a famine drove him home. Manasseh was mercifully ruined—in his affliction he sought the Lord God of his father, and he was found of him. And he gives you the valley of Achor for a door of hope. Do not think hardly of him, under whose discipline you now are. He knew your danger; and interposed to prevent it. He has hedged up your way with thorns; but it is to keep you from following lying vanities and forsaking your own mercies. He tries you; but it is for your profit. He sees what you can bear. And he who loved you, so as to give his own Son for you, will suffer you to want no good thing.