[Manna - December 24]
Thou shalt call His name JESUS: for He shall save His people from their sins. Matthew 1:21
THE noting of those little incidentals by which divine
providence prepared for our Savior's birth and
for the sending forth of the Gospel message, are
strengthening to the faith of the Lord's people.
Realizing
God's care in the past over even the little things,
gives a foundation for confidence in His wisdom and
provision for the features of his plan which are yet
future—the fulfilment of all the exceeding great and
precious promises which centered in Him who was
born in Bethlehem.
And so also a realization of the divine
providence in the larger affairs of the divine plan
stimulates faith also in the Lord's providences as respects
the personal and more private affairs of His
people. Z. '00-8 R2556:2