Daily Strength for Daily Needs - April 15

Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Compiled by Mary W. Tileston

We know that all things work together for good to them that love
God.--ROM. viii. 28.

As for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.--GEN.
1. 20.

  Ill that He blesses is our good,
    And unblest good is ill;
    And all is right that seems most wrong,
  If it be His sweet Will.

F. W. FABER.

To those who know themselves, all things work together for good, and all
things seem to be, as they are to them, good. The goods which God gives
seem "very good," and God Himself in them, because they know that they
deserve them not. The evils which God allows and overrules seem also "very
good," because they see in them His loving hand, put forth to heal them of
what shuts out God from the soul. They love God intensely, in that He is so
good to them in each, and every, the least good, because it is more than
they deserve: how much more in the greatest! They love God for every, and
each, the very greatest of what seem evils, knowing them to be, from His
love, real goods. For He by whom "all the hairs of our head are numbered,"
and who "knoweth whereof we are made," directs everything which befalls us
in life, in perfect wisdom and love, to the well-being of our souls.

E. B. PUSEY.