We give thanks to You, O God, for You are good. Your steadfast love endures forever. For You have guided this body through the complex challenges of these times and have restored to us the assurance of Your steadfast love in all circumstances.
Why, then, do we doubt Your provision?
Why do we fail to trust in Your care and keeping?
Before we even call, You are already listening, providing for our needs in ways we cannot comprehend. While we are still sharing with You our worries and concerns, You have already heard the yearnings of our hearts.
Praise be to You, O Lord, who has not rejected our prayers or withheld Your love from us.
So in confidence we set before You the work of our hands and the desires of our hearts, praying in the strength that is ours when we call on Your name.
It is in Your sovereign name we pray. Amen.
We who are frequently visited by this chastening rod, have the consolation to read in the Scriptures that whomever He chasteneth He loveth, and does it for their good to make them mindful of their mortality and that this earth is not our abiding place; and afflicts us that we may prepare for a better world, a happy immortality.
—Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President, 1829-1837
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