Observe the workings of grace. Nature dared not complain: the deed was the LORD'S, and that was enough to prove the rectitude of it. This stopped the mouth of Eli, 1 Samuel 3:18. The same consideration was urged to Job. Job 8:4. Reader! the best way to ascertain the real regard we have to the LORD, is not only to acquiesce in things when all is smooth and even, but when the LORD'S will thwarts our will. Then to desire GOD'S glory, though in the accomplishment of it everything looks black around us; this is grace, and grace in blessed exercise. That was a precious frame of mind in Nehemiah 9:32.

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