"TURN YE AGAIN NOW EVERYONE FROM HIS EVIL WAY." This is the way to gain favour with God. Then the God of love, who is full of compassion, plenteous in mercy, ready to forgive, waiting to be gracious, will do His children no hurt. At times His dealings may cause us pain, but nothing shall by any means harm us. We ought rather to reason with Paul, "He that spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" He sent His ancient people as captives to Babylon, but it was for their good; He allowed His children to be cast into the fiery furnace, into the lions' den, to be driven out to wander in sheepskins and goatskins, but He did not allow them to be hurt; all this was sanctified to them, and the curse was turned into a blessing. If He scourge us with one hand, He will support us with the other, and at last we shall come up before His throne, out of great tribulation, having washed our robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Not one who has arrived safe in heaven will say that his God allowed him to be hurt, notwithstanding the trials endured by the way. Nothing shall by any means hurt you. Did not our Lord promise, "Lo I am with you alway"?

For Meditation:
Lord, I would my all resign,
Gladly lose my will in Thine;
Careless be of things below,
Thee alone content to know;
Simple, innocent, and free,
Seeking all my bliss in Thee.