His footsteps, His judgments, His methods, are often untrackable, like the untried sea.
What though I cannot comprehend all His winding mazes?
It is enough that He comprehends.
I rest in His wise-heartedness and love.
I know that if He surrounds me with change, He gives me a hold on what is permanent and stable.
Every breath of wind, every passing shadow, every ray of sun, alters the sea.
And, meanwhile, by God's will, nothing in my life continues unchangeable.
The very mutableness of things, drives me into closer communion with Himself.
Standing on the Rock of Ages, I am rooted in an element that is indestructible.
I know that if He permits me to be assailed by storm, He can keep my heart in peace.
It is His decree that I am driven hither and thither over moonless waters by contrary winds.
But the certainty is mine, that He makes all things to work together for my good.
He is my holy Father, my unerring Father, my Father of immeasurable grace.
He makes no mistakes now, and, by and by He will bring me to His house not made with hands, where I will sing with everlasting joy!
~Alexander Smellie~
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