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  THE ACCEPTANCE OF THE DIVINE
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of trusting in God's plan
and wisdom, even in the midst of challenges and difficulties.

Topics: "Divine Guidance", "Faith And Trust"
Scripture References: Psalm 119:105

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about God's promise to lead the blind in
unfamiliar paths, making darkness light before them and straightening
crooked things. She emphasizes the wisdom and guidance of God's love in
our lives, even when we are blinded by uncertainty. Tileston encourages
living with the awareness that every aspect of our lives unfolds as part
of a divine plan, where every experience and change reveals God's
fatherly counsel. She urges acceptance of trials, suffering, and
challenges as opportunities for growth, trusting that God has prepared
us for greater things.

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I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in
paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them,
and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not
forsake them.

ISAIAH 16

WHEN over dizzy heights we go,

One soft hand blinds our eyes,

The other leads us, safe and slow,

O Love of God most wise!

ELIZA SCUDDER

THE simple thought of a life which is to be the un-folding of a Divine
plan is too beautiful, too captivating, to suffer one indifferent or
heedless moment. Living in this manner, every turn of your experience
will be a discovery to you of God, every change a token of His fatherly
counsel. Whatever obscurity, darkness, trial, suffering, falls upon you;
your defeats, losses, injuries; your outward state, employment, rela-
tions; what seems hard, unaccountable, severe, or, as nature might say,
vexatiou--all these you will see are parts or constitutive elements in
God's beautiful and good plan for you, and, as such, are to be accepted
with a smile. Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs,
if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has
girded you for greater things than these.

HORACE BUSHNELL

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/the-acceptance-of-the-divine/
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