Kept By Sovereign Love

Help # 3 – It is of marvelous efficacy to keep the heart from sinking under affliction, to call to mind that thine own Father hath the ordering of your afflictions.

Flavel says on P. 442 – "Not a creature moves hand or tongue against thee, but by His permission. Suppose the cup be a bitter cup, yet it is the cup which thy Father hath given thee to drink; and canst thou suspect poison to be in that cup which He delivers to thee? Foolish man, put home the case to thine own heart, consult with thine own affections and feelings; canst thou find in thy heart to give thy child that which would hurt, or undo him?

Matthew 7: 11 – "If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him?"