Resting in His Love January 25 The Lord has been and is teaching us what a precious thing it is to trust our temporal affairs into His Hands. We have learned Mark 6:25–34 and Luke 12:22–32 are really true for us. It is wonderful that the Lord blesses His children like this, but He Himself has declared it, and His word stands sure. And oh! it is infinitely precious to trust everything to Him. Even perplexities and trials that drive us to this entire dependence have something very sweet in them, and though often trying to the flesh—still I can thank and bless the Lord for such gracious dealings with me. I am His child—this comprises the whole breadth and extent of my faith. I know that I am “of more value than many sparrows.” Once it was as if I were walking along a certain pathway, upheld and guided it is true by the hand of God, but still walking as we sometimes have seen pictures of children with their guardian angels. I felt that if God should let go of my hand, though I would certainly fall, still I would not fall far, nor be seriously injured. But now I think far differently. I see God moving swiftly through the awful infinitudes of space and time. I see His arms outstretched over the fearful depths of infinity and eternity, and I see myself lying in those arms—a poor, weak, trembling, sin-defiled thing. I know that the depths are just beneath me and that nothing separates me from them but the arms of mercy in which I am lying; but my upturned face knows nothing but the tender Voice saying “I will never leave thee nor forsake thee.” If those arms of mercy should grow weary of carrying me, then I should be lost indeed for I should sink down, down, down into the blackness of darkness forever. But as I lie in their strong embrace, I do not fear this. And the more I see of my own helplessness, and the more I know of my own vileness, the more closely I cling to those Arms of mercy and the more earnestly I gaze into that face of love. And I say to myself, “He knew all my unworthiness when He loved me and took me into His embrace, and though He continues to know it, He will not cease to love me or cast me off.” I rest, oh, I rest in His Love! —Journal, December 4, 1859 Smith, H. W., & Dieter, M. E. (1997). The Christian’s secret of a holy life: the unpublished personal writings of Hannah Whitall Smith. Oak Harbor: Logos Research Systems, Inc.
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