"God beholds you individually, whoever you are. ...
"God beholds you
individually, whoever you are. He calls you by your name. He sees you and
understands you, as He made you. He knows what is in you, all your own peculiar
feelings and thoughts, your dispositions and likings, your strength, your
weakness.
He views you in your day of rejoicing, and your day of sorrow.
He sympathises in your hopes and your temptations. He interests Himself in all
your anxieties and remembrances, all the rising and failings of your spirit. He
has numbered the very hairs of your head and the height of your
stature.
He compasses you round and bears you in His arms; He takes you
up and sets you down. He notes your very countenance, whether smiling or in
tears, whether healthful or sickly. He looks tenderly upon your hands and your
feet; He hears your voice, the beating of your heart, and your very
breathing.
You do not love yourself better than He loves you. You cannot
shrink from pain more than He dislikes your bearing it; and if He puts it on
you, it is as you would put it on yourself, if you would be wise, for a greater
good afterwards....
God has created you to
do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to you which He has not
committed to another. You have your mission -- you may never know it in this
life but you shall be told it in the next.
You are a link in a chain, a
bond of connection between persons. He has not created you for naught. You shall
do good, you shall do His work. You shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of
truth in your own place while not intending it if you do but keep His
commandments.
Therefore I will trust Him. Whatever I am, I can never be
thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my
perplexity may serve Him. If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. He does
nothing in vain. He knows what He is about.
He may take away my friends.
He may throw me among strangers. He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits
sink, hide my future from me -- still He knows what He is about."
John Henry Newman
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