God Will Take Care of You
Surrendering to God's will brings great peace and transforms hard things into easy, as He works in us to bring our wishes and affections into conformity with His own will.
Mary Wilder Tileston emphasizes the importance of loving God's law to experience great peace and avoid stumbling. Surrendering one's will completely to the Lord is crucial, allowing Him to transform hard and bitter situations into easy and sweet ones. By aligning our wishes and affections with God's will, He performs miracles in surrendered hearts, bringing obedience and peace as inseparable rewards.
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Great peace have they which love Thy law; and they have none occasion of stumbling.
--PSALMS 119:165 (R. V.)
IN Thy might all things I bear,
In Thy love find bitter sweet,
And with all my grief and care,
Sit in patience at Thy feet.
--A. H. FRANCKE
WHAT you need to do, is to put your will over completely into the hands of your Lord, surrendering to Him the entire control of it. Say, "Yes, Lord, YES!" to everything, and trust Him so to work in you to will, as to bring your whole wishes and affections into conformity with His own sweet, and lovable, and most lovely will. It is wonderful what miracles God works in wills that are utterly surrendered to Him. He turns hard things into easy, and bitter things into sweet. It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.
--HANNAH WHITALL SMITH
It has been well remarked, It is not said that after keeping God's commandments, but in keeping them there is great reward. God has linked these two things together, and no man can separate them--obedience and peace.
--F. W. ROBERTSON
Sermon Outline
- Surrendering to God's Will
- God's Miracles in Surrendered Wills
- The Link Between Obedience and Peace
- God has linked obedience and peace together
- No man can separate them
Key Quotes
“Great peace have they which love Thy law; and they have none occasion of stumbling.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“It is not that He puts easy things in the place of the hard, but He actually changes the hard thing into an easy one.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
“God has linked these two things together, and no man can separate them--obedience and peace.” — Mary Wilder Tileston
Application Points
- Surrender your will to God and trust Him to work in you to bring your wishes and affections into conformity with His own will.
- Remember that God's reward for keeping His commandments is great peace.
- Trust God to change hard things into easy and bitter things into sweet.