Faithfulness of God

God respects you as much in a low as in a high condition, and therefore it need not so much trouble you to be made low. Not only so but, to speak home, he manifests more of his love, grace, and tenderness in the time of affliction than prosperity. As God did not at first choose you because you were high, so he will not forsake you because you are low. Men may look shy upon you, and alter their respects as your condition is altered. When providence has blasted your estates, your summer friends may grow strange, as fearing you may be troublesome to them. But will God do so? No, no!

I hear the words of love,

I gaze upon the blood;

I see the mighty sacrifice,

And I have peace with God.

’Tis everlasting peace,

Sure as Jehovah’s name;

’Tis stable as His steadfast throne,

For evermore the same.

The clouds may go and come,

And storms may sweep my sky,

This blood-sealed friendship changes not,

The cross is ever nigh.

Who told you that the night would never end in day? Who told you that the sea would ebb out till there should be nothing left but a vast track of mud and sand? Who told you that the winter would proceed from frost to frost, from snow, and ice, and hail, to deeper snow, and yet more heavy tempest? Who told you this, I say? Don’t you know that day follows night, that flood comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed to winter? Hope then! Hope you ever! For God fails you not.