God’s providence—3

John Flavel wrote concerning God’s providence: “There is not such a pleasant history for you to read in all the world as the history of your own lives, if you would but sit down and record from the beginning hitherto what God has been to you; what signal manifestations and outbreakings of His mercy, faithfulness and love there have been in all the conditions you have passed through.  If your hearts do not melt before you have gone half through that history, they are hard indeed.”  Flavel realized the profound source of encouragement the knowledge of providence can be: “It is a great support and solace to the saints in all their distresses, that there is a wise Spirit setting all the wheels of providence in motion.  It would not be worth living in a world devoid of God and providence.”