Fri.-Sabbath, 4/12-14/19 Devotion

Yes—it is almost Sunday! In order to help get us ready for church, here is Thomas Watson, from, "The Art of Divine Contentment":

"Be content, by virtue of a decree. Whatever our condition is, God the umpire of the world has from everlasting decreed that condition for us; and by His providence ordered all things thereunto. Let a Christian often think with him-self, 'Who has placed me here, whether I am in a high sphere, or in a lower?' Not chance or fortune, as the blind heathens imagined; no, it is the wise God that has by His providence fixed me in this orb. We must act that scene which God would have us. . . .

"God's providence is that helm which turns about the whole ship of the uni-verse. Say then, as holy David, 'I was dumb, I opened not my mouth, be-cause You, Lord, did it,' (Ps. 39:9). God's providence, which is nothing else but the carrying out of His decree, should be a counter measure against dis-content. God has set us in our station, and He has done it in wisdom. We im-agine that such and such a condition of life would be good for us; whereas if we were our own carvers [determiners], we should often cut the worst
piece. . . . "