I Would Refer It Back To Him Again!

It was an excellent reply that a Christian mother once made to a friend-when her beloved and only child lay in a dangerous sickness at the point of death.

The friend asked the mother, What would you now ask of God, in reference to your child? 

Would you beg Him for your child's life?

The mother answered, "I refer that to the will of God."

But, said her friend, "if God would refer it to you-what would you choose then?"

Why truly, said she, if God would refer it to me-I would refer it back to Him again!

He is the LORD. Let Him do what seems good to Him. 1 Samuel 3:18 

1Sa 3:18  And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the LORD: let him do what seemeth him good. 

Suddenly, a powerful wind swept in from the wilderness and hit the house on all sides.

The house collapsed, and all your children are dead! 

Job 1:19  And, behold, there came a great wind from the wilderness, and smote the four corners of the house, and it fell upon the young men, and they are dead; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.  

The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away-may the name of the LORD be praised.

Job 1:21  And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD.

Father, if You are willing, please take this cup of suffering away from Me. Nevertheless, I want Your will to be done, not Mine. 

Luke 22:42  Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.

May the Lord's will be done.

Act 21:14  And when he would not be persuaded, we ceased, saying, The will of the Lord be done.

~John Flavel~