GOD'S THOUGHTS TOWARD US by Mrs. M. Stratton Beers

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 27, 1884

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 10, No. 45.

GOD'S THOUGHTS TOWARD US.

By Mrs. M. Stratton Beers

BY MRS. M. STRATTON BEERS.

"I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end." Jer. 29 : 11.

BLESSED knowledge, that passeth The understanding of men; To know the thoughts God thinketh (Tho' beyond our human ken), Are fraught with peace toward us, "To give an expected end."

He'll think of all that is needed, Just how to mould and to bend These unfinished earthen vessels, Before to the furnace he'll send. Not one of his thoughts will we question, For he hath an eye to the "end;"

That "end" for which we are longing, With a yearning unsurpassed; For we know 'tis God's thought toward us, When through the furnace we've passed, To bring, "without spot or blemish," Each faithful one home at last.