Susanna's Rescue: Setting All Things Right, Even Us

Praying for God’s will to be done does not include an exception clause. It means us. It means placing God’s will ahead of ours, even when it may cause suffering in our lives, and trusting his will, even if we think we have a better way of doing it ourselves. It will not always be easy, our Lord Jesus can attest to this. “Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven” is a prayer with astounding hope for the future, that God will finally set all things right, even us.

Excerpt From Our Only Comfort Stephen C. Shaffer

At the dawn of Creation, angels were singing along with the stars. And when God announced a new creation, the coming of the Christ child, angels were singing again. Angels apparently get excited about new creations.

Jesus mentions another time that angels sing. He puts it this way, “There is joy in the presence of God’s angels when even one sinner repents” (Luke 15:10). Another new creation!

Have you made the angels start singing?

Angels from the realms of glory,

Wing your flight o’er all the earth;

Ye who sang creation’s story,

Now proclaim Messiah’s birth:

Come and worship, come and worship,

Worship Christ, the newborn King.

JAMES MONTGOMERY

It is a trying thing to continue with a man who persists in giving an abstract supposition as a concrete fact.

When problems are pressing very hard there is always someone who brings a suggestion of “if,” or “but,” or “how,” to take us off the track. If our problems can be solved by other men, they are not problems but simply states of confusion. 

A gospel based on preconceived notions is merely an irritant. 

Excerpts From Our Ultimate Refuge Oswald Chambers