<BrethrenVoice> 31 May 2002 SUCH A FATHER IS OURS! (edited from Octavius Winslow's "Hoping in the Lord") How sweet and assuring is the trust of a child in a parent's love, care, and protection. Such a Father is ours! We may trust in His forgiveness, to cancel our greatest sins. We may trust in His wisdom, to guide our most intricate perplexity. We may trust in His power, to raise up from the lowest depth. We may trust in His love, to soothe our profoundest grief. We may trust in His resources, to supply our every need. Let your condition be ever so extreme; human friendship disappointing you, earthly supplies failing you, human sympathy refused you, and dark despair enthroned grimly and coldly upon your heart; there yet is hope in God! The Lord has.... withered this fleshly arm, dried up that creature spring, and blown upon this worldly hope, that you might be shut up to Him alone. Never was He so near as at this moment, when human help is far; never so loving, and compassionate, as now, when human love has failed! Such a Father is ours! ______________________________________________________________________ ["EXAMINE YOURSELVES WHETHER YOU ARE IN FAITH." (2 Cor 13:5)] [BrethrenVoice facilitates free flow of Christian information towards establishing the saved in the sustaining grace and leading the unsaved to the saving grace.] TO GOD BE THE GLORY! To UNSUBSCRIBE, email: <brethrenvoice-unsubscribe@...> To subscribe all messages, email: <brethrenvoice-subscribe@...> To subscribe digest, email: <brethrenvoice-digest-subscribe@...> To post a message to the List, forward: <brethrenvoice@...> To contact the List Moderator, email: <brethrenvoice@...> BrethrenVoice Home: http://associate.com/digests/brethrenvoice eFellowship Home: http://communities.msn.co.uk/BrethrenChristiansForum