Oftentimes it is difficult to see how certain promises of God are to be realized. We have nothing to do with that whatever! God keeps our hands off His promises quite as surely as He keeps them off His stars. If He will not let us intermeddle with His planets, He will not ask us to have anything to do with the outworking and realization of His promises. He asks that their fulfillment be left to Him; and afterwards He will challenge our own life as the witness and answer, and confirmation of all that is gracious and all that is sure in the outworking of His words of promise. JOSEPH PARKER

The One who rolls the stars along speaks all the promises.

Trust the untraceable ways of God and remember that “these are but the outer fringe of his works” (Job 26:14).

In Thy strong arms I lay me down,

So shall the work be done;

For who can work so wondrously,

As the Almighty One!

Lord , my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him: and he will shew them his covenant.—There is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets.—Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him?

Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.—If ye love me, keep my commandments.

And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter that he may abide with you for ever; even the Spirit of truth.