God is providentially steering all to the port of His own praise and His people's happiness, while the whole world is busily employed in managing the sails and tugging the oars with a quite opposite design and purpose. They promote God's design by opposing it, fulfill His will by resisting it, and enlarge His church by scattering it. They make the saint's rest sweeter by making their condition so restless in the world.
What a history we might compile, as we trace the footsteps of providence along the way. Here it prevented, and there it delivered. Here it directed, and there it corrected. Here it grieved, and there it relieved. Here was the poison, and there, the antidote. This providence dispelled a dismal cloud. This one straitened, and that one enlarged. Here a want, and there a supply.
Words cannot express the delight we may find in such employment. O reader, what a life of pleasure you might live by noticing the ways of providence towards you! What a heaven upon earth you may have! Taste and see the glory of the study of providence. - John Flavel
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