From Samuel Bagster's Daily Light for the Daily Path Devotional [c. 1875]
...with application and prayer responses by me...
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. Deut. 32:39
None can deliver from the hand of God!!!
I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end. Jer. 29:11
His thoughts are good and peaceful toward those His obedient children...
My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. Isa. 55:8
When we would expect His chastening rod, we oft experience His blessing
I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her. Hos. 2:14
Notice, He speaks 'comfortably' to her...words of comfort...peace...
As a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee. Deut. 8:5
Chastening is certain...
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Heb. 12:11
The chastening LOVE of Almighty God is grievous, makes us full of grief and remorse, but brings forth fruit in our lives...
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. I Pet. 5:6
Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, not the fear of man, which brings to us a snare...
I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Psa. 119:75
Thank God for thine afflictions, whether they be many or few
For so doth He bring fruit in us that we should walk anew
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