This Perhaps Is Why

Many of the hymns we sing this morning focus on God’s providence. The service is bookended by verses from O Worship The King, a paraphrase of Psalm 104, which speaks of God’s kingly majesty and His “bountiful care.” In Jesus, Shepherd Of Thy People, we declare that we “trust [His] mighty hand,” while in The Lord I Will At All Times Bless—Psalm 34, we proclaim our confidence that God will deliver us from all our troubles. O Put Your Trust In God warns us to “leave to His sovereign sway to choose and to command,” while Fret Not Yourself—Psalm 37 urges us to “be still before the Lord and wait,” because He is a sure stronghold and upholds us with His hand. God’s providential orchestration of events doesn’t always look like what we would expect—just look at the story of Onesimus. If the Lord can transform a deceitful slave into a loyal brother, what unlikely outcomes might He bring to pass in our lives? —Henry C. Haffner