FOR THOU HAST DONE RIGHT

 

EVENING DEVOTION

NOVEMBER 3

 

Nehemiah 9:33

…for thou hast done right,

 
The Lord cannot but do right, this is generally acknowledged;
  but to be persuaded of this, to realize it, and
    be influenced by it, under severe and
      heavy trials is exceedingly difficult.
 
But the Lord never acts but according to the plan which he has drawn,
  which plan is the perfection of wisdom, and proceeds from his infinite love.
 
What he does, he purposed to do; and
  he purposed to do it,
    because it was the very best thing that could be done.
 
We are poor, hasty, selfish, dissatisfied creatures, 

  ready to sit in judgment upon what God does, and 

    to complain of his dealings without the least cause.
 
But there are times when looking back upon our losses, crosses, sufferings and trials, we can say, and say it heartily, “Thou hast done right.”
 
Doubtless Jacob felt this, when he embraced his son Joseph in Egypt; and 

  Job also, when God had blessed his latter end more than the beginning; and 

    Daniel also, when he was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt 

      was found on him—because he believed in his God.
 
Let us, when the Lord tries our graces, or buffets us for our faults, endeavour to say,

 ‘THOU HAST DONE RIGHT.’
 

With peaceful steps thy race of duty run,

God nothing does, nor suffers to be done,

But thou wouldest do thyself, couldst thou but see

The end of all events as well as he.

 
James Smith