Lincoln Providence
Verse of the day: abundance of riches, wisdom, and knowledge of God, how unsinkable are your judgments and impenetrable your ways!(Romans 11:33)
- Abraham Lincoln.
- Born that day in 1809.
- Remained skeptical.
- And sometimes even sarcastic.
- About religion until he was forty.
- So it is surprising to see how personal and national suffering brought Lincoln into the reality of God.
- Rather than driving him away.
In 1862, when Lincoln was 53, his 11-year-old son Willie died. Lincoln’s wife “tried to cope with her suffering by looking for New Age psychics. “Lincoln approached Phineas Gurley, pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington.
Several long conversations led to what Gurley described as “a conversion to Christ. “Lincoln confessed, “I often get down on my knees at the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. “
Similarly, the horrors of dead and wounded soldiers strike him every day. There were fifty hospitals for wounded Washington. La the Capitol roundabout had 2,000 beds for wounded soldiers.
Usually fifty soldiers a day die in these temporary hospitals. All of this led Lincoln deeper to God’s providence. “We can’t help but believe that the one who created the world still rules it. “
His most famous statement on God’s providence in relation to the civil war was his second inaugural address, which took place a month before his assassination. This discourse is remarkable for not making God a mere defender of the Union or the Confederate cause. own purposes and does not excuse sin from anywhere.
Are we waiting vehemently?
However, if God wants this to continue, until all the wealth accumulated by the two hundred years of unpaid slave labor is finished, and until every drop of blood drawn with the whip is paid for with another shot with the sword, as has been said. . Three thousand years ago, we must say, “The Lord’s judgments are true and equally just. “
I pray for all of you who suffer from loss, pain, and great sadness that awakens you, as was the case with Lincoln, not for an empty nihilism, but for a deeper trust in the infinite wisdom and love of God’s unstoppable providence.
Original: February 12th? Lincoln Providence, © 2017 Faithful Ministérium. All rights are reserved. Website: MinisterioFiel. com. br: Camila Rebeca Almeida Critic: Vinicius Musselman Narration: Elalio Garofalo Neto.
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