{"id":976,"date":"2008-10-04T02:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T02:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=976"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:13:45","slug":"anxiety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“One of the marks of Christian maturity which a believer should seek is an acquiescence in the Lord’s will founded in a persuasion of His wisdom, holiness, sovereignty, & goodness…So far as we attain to this, we are secure from disappointment. Our own limited views, & short-sighted purposes & desires, may be, & will be, often over-ruled; but then our main & leading desire, that the will of the Lord may be done, must be accomplished. <\/p>\n

How highly does it become us, both as creatures & as sinners, to submit to the appointments of our Maker! and how necessary is it to our peace!
This great attainment is too often unthought of, & over-looked; we are prone to fix our attention upon the second causes & immediate instruments of events; forgetting that whatever befalls us is according to His purpose, & therefore must be right & seasonable in itself, & shall in the issue be productive of good.<\/p>\n

From hence arise impatience, resentment, & secret repinings (complainings), which are not only sinful, but tormenting; whereas, if all things are in His Hand, if the very hairs of our head are numbered; if every event, great & small, is under the direction of His providence & purpose; & if He has a wise, holy, & gracious end in view, to which everything that happens is subordinate & subservient;-then we have nothing to do, but with patience & humility to follow as He leads, & cheerfully to expect a happy issue…<\/p>\n

How happy are they who can resign all to Him, see His Hand in every dispensation, & believe that He chooses better for them than they possibly could for themselves!”<\/p>\n

John Newton<\/p>\n

If only I had learned this before now!
And can I?
Only in spite of me & through His mercy.<\/p>\n

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  “One of the marks of Christian maturity which a believer should seek is an acquiescence in the Lord’s will founded in a persuasion of His wisdom, holiness, sovereignty, & goodness…So far as we attain to this, we are secure from disappointment. Our own limited views, & short-sighted purposes & desires, may be, & will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1362,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/1362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisper.rps.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}