God's tools and instruments

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God's tools and instruments!

(By Thomas Brooks, from his book, "London's Lamentations" which was written as a response the the Great Fire of London)

"I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things." Isaiah 45:7

Let us see the hand of the Lord in this recent dreadful fire which has turned our once renowned London into a ruinous heap! London's sins were now so great, and God's wrath was now so hot—that there was no quenching of the furious flames. The decree for the burning of London was now gone forth, and nothing could reverse it. The time of London's fall was now come. The fire had now received its commission from God—to burn down the city and to turn it into a ruinous heap!

"Our God is in heaven; He does whatever pleases Him." Psalm 115:3. "The Lord does whatever pleases Him—in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths." Psalm 135:6

"The Lord brings death and makes alive; He brings down to the grave and raises up. The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts!" 1 Samuel 2:6-7