He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever. Sermons
I. THE IDEA OF PROVIDENCE FITTED THE OLDER CONCEPTION OF GOD. It belongs to the apprehension of God as Creator, Sustainer, Ruler. He is Lord of the whole world of things, and is thought of as controlling all things in the interest of his own special people. He is the Universal Provider, and our fathers delighted in stories of remarkable providential interpositions, guidances, and arrangements. And still no man can read his own life, or watch the lives of others, without being impressed with the wonder-working ways of Divine providence, which make the "unexpected" the thing that happens. Constantly in life we find things are brought round for us which we could in no way have mastered or arranged. "There's a divinity that shapes our ends, II. THE NEWER CONCEPTION OF GOD GLORIFIES HIS PROVIDENCE. Christ has brought to men a comprehensive name for God. It includes the very essence of every previous conception and name, but puts man into a new and more directly personal and affectionate relation with God. He is our Father. And his providence is his fatherly care of our every interest. Has a child any such providence as his father is to him? And yet a child never thinks of, or speaks of, his father as providence. And in the measure in which we can enter into the idea of God as our Father, we shall find that we lose out of use the term "providence," but keep all the reality of it, and indeed glorify it, as we lose the impersonal and therefore cold element, and see it to be the wisdom and power and activity of our Father, which is beautified and sanctified by his love for us his sons. - R.T. I. God ACTS. He is the great worker, — never resting, never failing, never wearying, — the worker of all workers, the motor in all motions. II. God acts EVERYWHERE. In the heavens He rolls the massive orbs of space; on the earth He maketh the grass to grow and clotheth the earth with verdure. III. God acts FROM and FOR HIMSELF. 1. From Himself. Our activity is often excited and controlled by something external to ourselves. His never. Nothing is extra. No ruling principles or persons, not all the hierarchies of intelligences, nor the rushing forces and forms of universal matter can excite Him. His action is that of absolute spontaneity. He is responsible to no one. 2. For Himself. There is no other reason for His activity but what pleases Him. The chief measure of any moral intelligence is the gratification of His predominant disposition. In God this is love. Hence His pleasure in creating the universe and sustaining it is the diffusion of His own happiness. His pleasure is the pleasure of His creatures; His happiness and theirs are identical. (David Thomas, D. D.) People Amorites, Egyptians, Og, Pharaoh, Psalmist, SihonPlaces JerusalemTopics Age, Desert, Endures, Endureth, Everlasting, Forever, Kindness, Leading, Led, Love, Loving, Lovingkindness, Loving-kindness, Mercy, Steadfast, Unchanging, Waste, WildernessOutline 1. An exhortation to give thanks to God for particular mercies.Dictionary of Bible Themes Psalm 136:16 1085 God, love of Library Pilgrim SongGerhard Ter Steegen Ps. cxxxvi. 16 Come, children, on and forward! With us the Father goes; He leads us, and He guards us Through thousands of our foes: The sweetness and the glory, The sunlight of His eyes, Make all the desert places To glow as paradise. Lo! through the pathless midnight The fiery pillar leads, And onward goes the Shepherd Before the flock He feeds; Unquestioning, unfearing, The lambs may follow on, In quietness and confidence, Their eyes on Him alone. Come, children, on and … Frances Bevan—Hymns of Ter Steegen, Suso, and Others The Last Discourses of Christ - the Prayer of Consecration. The Minstrel Gethsemane Psalms Links Psalm 136:16 NIVPsalm 136:16 NLT Psalm 136:16 ESV Psalm 136:16 NASB Psalm 136:16 KJV Psalm 136:16 Bible Apps Psalm 136:16 Parallel Psalm 136:16 Biblia Paralela Psalm 136:16 Chinese Bible Psalm 136:16 French Bible Psalm 136:16 German Bible Psalm 136:16 Commentaries Bible Hub |