January 10 ~

... he, knowing their thoughts ... Lord, thou knowest all things ... For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things ...
Lk.11:17 (KJV); Jn.21:17 (KJV); Rom.11:36 (NAS)

If ev'ry thought of mine the Lord doth know
and not mine only, but those of all men ...
And if, indeed, all things down from Him flow,
both good and ill, so that the how and when
of ev'ry incident, all taking place
in this strange world, He doth preplan, fulfill
according to His purpose for the race ...

If not a sparrow falls against His will
and ev'ry hair is numbered on each head
then all's finitely rigged, and to degrees
beyond imagining! Lo! here are bred
His offspring, shaped amidst apparencies ...

Yet to His offspring gives He faith, and choice!
And Truth reveals to take! O child, rejoice!

For there is not a word in my tongue [still unuttered], but, lo, O Lord, You know it altogether ... Your (infinite) knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high above me, I cannot reach it ... It was His kindly purpose in Christ to manage everything in heaven and on earth in such a way that when the right time would come it would all be organized under Christ as its Head ... In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ should be to the praise of His glory ... "Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s will. But even the hairs of your head are all numbered" ... Consequently, from now on we estimate and regard no one from a [purely] human point of view ... "I now call you friends, because I have told you everything that I have learned from my Father" ...
Ps.139:4,6 (Amp); Eph.1:9,10 (Beck); 1:10,11,12 (NAS); Mat.10:29-30 (RSV); 2Cor.5:16 (Amp); Jn.15:15 (Wil).

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