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Pastor, Russell Lee | Trinity, Texas
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Lincoln’s Providence
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016
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Daily Devotional by John Piper

Lincoln’s Providence

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable
are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! (Romans 11:33)

Abraham Lincoln, who was born on this day in 1809, remained skeptical, and at
times even cynical, about religion into his forties. So it is a most striking
thing how personal and national suffering drew Lincoln into the reality of
God, rather than pushing him away.

In 1862, when Lincoln was 53 years old, his 11-year-old son Willie died.
Lincoln’s wife “tried to deal with her grief by searching out New Age
mediums.” Lincoln turned to Phineas Gurley, pastor of the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church in Washington.

Several long talks led to what Gurley described as “a conversion to Christ.”
Lincoln confided that he was “driven many times upon my knees by the
overwhelming conviction that I have nowhere else to go.”

Similarly, the horrors of the dead and wounded soldiers assaulted him daily.
There were fifty hospitals for the wounded in Washington. The rotunda of the
Capitol held 2,000 cots for wounded soldiers.

Typically, fifty soldiers a day died in these temporary hospitals. All of this
drove Lincoln deeper into the providence of God. “We cannot but believe, that
He who made the world still governs it.”

His most famous statement about the providence of God in relation to the Civil
War was his Second Inaugural Address, given a month before he was
assassinated. It is remarkable for not making God a simple supporter for the
Union or Confederate cause. He has his own purposes and does not excuse sin on
either side.

Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war
might speedily pass away . . . .

Yet if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the
bond-man’s two hundred years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every
drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid with another drawn with the
sword, as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said, “the
judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.

I pray for all of you who suffer loss and injury and great sorrow that it will
awaken for you, as it did for Lincoln, not an empty nihilism, but a deeper
reliance on the infinite wisdom and love of God’s inscrutable providence.
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