Today God the Father and God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, they’ve got their eye on you. And if you’re His child today, they’re watching you; they’re taking care of you. And you say, “Well, my, why do all these things happen to me?” Well I ask that question sometimes myself. I don’t have the answer for it. But I do know this: He permits it and He does it for a purpose, though He doesn’t explain it to us now, but He will by and by. That’s going to be one of the wonders of heaven, I think, is that you and I are going to get some answers that we don’t get down here. That’s going to be a great day, friends. (6:07)

“At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all peoples of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.” Oh, this is the day of light that is come. And it will be glorious because God is putting many of us through, many of us, through the furnace, through trials. And I think that one of the glorious things about heaven will not be the golden streets, and it won’t be the fact He’s going to wipe away all tears. The glorious thing in heaven is going to be you and I are going to thank Him for every trial we had and every burden that He put upon us.

God says here, “I intend to take care of the afflicted and the poor.” And if you’ll notice, all the way through Scripture, we called attention to it before, the Lord always mentions the fact that He intends someday to see that the poor get an honest deal. That they will be treated right. And the only one in the world today who has a program for the poor is the Lord Jesus Christ. If you’re poor and needy, He’s the one to go to. He can help you, and He’s the only one that can.

Now even the great day of wrath is a judgment from God, but it has in it the love of God. You see, regardless of what takes place, God is love. It’s like that weathervane that we told you about that Spurgeon saw, the farmer had on his barn. And he had written on that weathervane “God is Love.” And Mr. Spurgeon said, “You mean God’s love is as variable as the weather?” And he said, “No, I don’t mean that. I mean that regardless of which way the wind blows, God is love.” And that, my friend, is true. Even in judgment, God is still a God of love.

Today it’s not what you see in Christ that’s important, it’s what God sees in Christ, and God sees in Him a Savior for this world—a Savior who adequately provided for the salvation of sinners so that He could see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied. And God, this morning, is satisfied with what Jesus did. Are you? Are you satisfied with Him today? Oh, He wants you and He wants me to see in Christ all that we need as a Savior today.

What is your future tonight? What’s your hope? Are you living tonight sort of like an earthworm? You can’t even see ahead of you? You do not know what’s going to come to pass, and you’re looking into the future with fear? Not realizing what might happen, and anything could happen to any of us. We’re told “we know not what a day will bring forth.” But every child of God knows tonight that He has a Shepherd, and that he can never be taken out of the hands of his Shepherd, either in time or eternity. And that His Shepherd has a program for the future. I say to you tonight that gives hope to life, that gives purpose to life.

“The great day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, for when they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness that that day should overtake you as a thief.” My beloved, He will not come for His church as a thief. But when He comes to the earth to establish His kingdom, He comes as a thief, breaking into this world, interfering with men’s little plans and programs, for they are in rebellion against Him, and they won’t want Him. But men today can yield their hearts to Him. They can break down that rebellion by receiving Him as Savior.

Oh, my friend, God is the answer to your questions. God is the answer to your problem. And therefore, I don’t care who you are or where you are today, you can rejoice in Him. And you can rejoice in His salvation and say with this man, who was such a pessimist at the beginning, he now says, “I will joy in the God of my salvation.” The book opens in gloom; it closes in glory. It opens with a question mark; it closes with a mighty exclamation point. And it ends with this wonderful song. May you and I be encouraged today by the Word of God.

God has a purpose in your life. Every one of you. You can trust Christ today. And when you trust Him, He’ll begin to work in you, and He wants to conform you to His image. It’s God’s intention to make you like Christ. As Paul says in Romans 8:28, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.” Now regardless of the big words there, God’s eternal purpose with you is to make you like Jesus Christ. My friend, God has a purpose for you.

If you want the answer to your problems and the answer is here and that answer, by the way, is just simply this: God is the answer to our problem. This man came to God at the beginning and he says, “Why are you doing certain things? Why are you permitting me to see evil? Why don’t you move?” And then He brought him to the watchtower, and He let him see what He was doing. And now this man says, “I’m going to walk by faith with God.” He’s the answer to your problem today. I don’t know who you are or what your problem is but, my friend, God is the answer. You can have faith and confidence in Him.