What I most desired Thou hast
denied, yet I praise Thee: On what
account, I know not, yet I praise Thee: Thou hast done it; that silences me.
Thy will makes it indisputable, and renders it my indispensable duty to fall in
with it….But what matters it how the affairs of a present world go, if the
interests of the next world are secured?....what avails it though the outward
man decay, if the inner man grow? Though the temporal condition be perplexed,
if the conscience be possessed of spiritual peace? I praise Thee that Thou
interposest Thy providence, even in disappointing my enterprises; and dost not
give me up to the blind desires of mine own heart, and to wander at random in
counsels of mine own. I can resolve the
present case into nothing but Thy will; yet I rejoice more to fall in with Thy
will, and to be submissive to Thy disposal, than to have my will in every point
performed...
James
Meikle
