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GOD’S WORK
To the Lord was His own work known from the beginning of the world. — Acts xv. 18.
Were Your work known to us, my God, as it is to You, how well ordered our minds and hearts, our views, affections, lives would be! How all things would fall into their proper places — events public and private, every detail of Your Providence affecting ourselves and others! Our desires, especially, how tranquil, how subordinated they would be! Or, rather, would there be any desire save for the furtherance of Your work by the fulfilment of Your will?
But may not this be our disposition now by means of faith? May we not see in all that happens the action or the permission of God, to Whom His own work is known?
[Pg 125]
A child in the midst of a crowd is conscious of nothing but its immediate surroundings. Crushed and stifled, it can see and feel only the objects actually touching it. But let the father take it up in his arms and hold it aloft — what a difference the elevation will make!
I am in a crowd; in the dark, with the narrowest views and interests; knowing but dimly for what we are come together; finding no meaning often in what is stirring around me. But should God deign to raise me to His point of view, what a change would come over me! How differently I should look at all things! In all that happens, I should see the good pleasure…
