We believe in the providence of God, but we do not believe half enough in it. Remember that Omnipotence has servants everywhere, set in their places at every point of the road. In the old days of the post horses, there were always swift horses ready to carry onward the king’s mails.

It is wonderful how God has His relays of providential agents, how when He has done with one there is always another ready to take his place. Sometimes you have found one friend fail you—he is just dead and buried. “Ah!” you say, “what shall I do?” Well, well, God knows how to carry on the purposes of His providence; He will raise up another.

How strikingly punctual providence is! You and I make appointments and miss them by half an hour, but God never missed an appointment yet! God never is before His time though we often wish He were; but He is never behind—no, not by one tick of the clock.

When the children of Israel were to go down out of Egypt, all the Pharaohs in the pyramids, if they had risen to life again, could not have kept them in bondage another half minute. “Thus saith the Lord . . . Let my people go!” It was time, and go they must! All the kings of the earth, and all the princes thereof, are in subjection to the kingdom of God’s providence, and He can move them just as He pleases.

And now, trembler, wherefore are you afraid? “Fear thou not; for I am with thee” (Isaiah 41:10 KJV). All the mysterious arrangements of providence work for our good. CHARLES H. SPURGEON

I know that thou canst do every thing.—The things which are impossible with men are possible with God.—He doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?

There is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee.

Believe ye that I am able to do this? They said unto him, Yea, Lord. Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.

Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean. And Jesus put forth his hand and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean.

The mighty God.—All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.—Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed, . . . there be more with us than with him.