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Testimonies for the Church Volume 8
“Jehovah is merciful and gracious,
Slow to anger, and abundant in loving-kindness.
He will not always chide;
Neither will He keep His anger forever.
He hath not dealt with us after our sins,
Nor rewarded us after our iniquities.
“For as the heavens are high above the earth,
So great is His loving-kindness toward them that
fear Him.
As far as the east is from the west,
So far hath He removed our transgressions from us.
Like as a father pitieth his children,
So Jehovah pitieth them that fear Him.
For He knoweth our frame;
He remembereth that we are dust.
“As for man, his days are as grass;
As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone;
And the place thereof shall know it no more.
But the loving-kindness of Jehovah is from everlasting to
everlasting upon them that fear Him,
And His righteousness unto children’s children;
To such as keep His covenant,
And to those that remember His precepts to do them.”
Psalm 103:8-18
, A. R. V.
His Providential Care
Our God has heaven and earth at His command, and He knows just
what we need. We can see only a little way before us; “but all things
are naked and opened unto the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.”
Hebrews 4:13
. Above the distractions of the earth He sits enthroned;
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all things are open to His divine survey; and from His great and calm
eternity He orders that which His providence sees best.