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Last Updated on : October 11, 2014

 

 

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INSTRUMENTS IN GOD'S HAND

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BECAUSE thou hast let go out of thy hand a man "whom I appointed to utter destruction, therefore thy life shall go for his life and thy people for his people" (1 Kings 20:42). Here is an apparent frustration of the ways of providence through human weakness. God meant the destruction of the king of Syria, and he escaped through Ahab's misplaced lenity. The case reveals the fact that there is no mechanical coercion of the human will in the working out of the divine purpose by means of men; co-operation of man in such a case is necessary, and that where the result aimed at is not attained through the failure of that co-operation, the purpose will be accomplished by another instrument, for divine purposes will never ultimately fail.

ROBERT ROBERTS, The Ways of Providence, page 228

 

 


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