HE SHALL CHOOSE OUR INHERITANCE FOR US

 

EVENING DEVOTION by James Smith

MAY 16

 

Psalm 47:4

He shall choose our inheritance for us,

the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

 
Can you honestly and heartily say this?
   Are you so fully persuaded of the Lord’s wisdom,
   have you such steady faith in the Lord’s love,
   are you so resigned to the Lord’s will,
   so you sufficiently desire that the Lord’s glory
   should be advanced, as to say cheerfully,
   “He shall choose my inheritance for me?”
 
Do you approve of his general conduct in choosing for you?
 
Are you jealous of your own judgment?
 
If not, you cannot adopt this language to-night.
 
It includes an entire surrender to the Lord.
 
A desire to be wholly at his disposal.
 
Acquiescence in all his appointments, as to trials,
  comforts,
    gifts,
      place of residence,
        time and circumstances of death.
 
You may be sure if this, that if the Lord choose for you,
  he will do for you as Joseph did for his father and brethren,
  he will choose the best.
 
It is therefore your wisdom to commit all to the Lord,
   and leave him to manage your affairs.
 
It is a great privilege to have a God to choose for us,
  one who knows all persons, things, and events;
  and knows all perfectly.
 
It is your duty to be content with the choice that God has made for you, you would not have chosen better, you would not have chosen so well.
 

Now as on rising ground I stand,

Reviewing what is past,

I see that love and wisdom plann’d

My path from first to last.

 
James Smith