"God prepared for the loss of those 116 pages Martin Harris took more than two millennia before the actual event. He knew what Satan would try to do to frustrate His work for the Restoration of His gospel, so He commanded the prophets to make duplicate records and alternate accounts to make up for what Martin Harris would cause to happen. The stunning lesson I learn from this account is that God is always seeing everything with the long view. He is preparing for the future one day at a time through little means, so when something is needed, it just happens that everything is in place for a miracle to save the day. The Lord doesn’t just do this with scripture. I believe He has been working for many generations to have everything in my life and in your life ready and prepared so when you need things to “come off conqueror” it will already be there for you. It will appear to be incidental or an unexplained event that is fortuitous, but the Lord never needs to make last minute adjustments to make up for surprises we throw His way, for He already knows the end from the beginning, and has prepared all things in readiness for our day. We can live with absolute confidence that God has been planning for our success in our own day of uncertainty, for He has known about our day for many, many millennia now."

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