INVISIBLE HARMONIES We know that
all things work together for good to them that love God, to
them who are the called according to His purpose. Romans 8 verse
28 We are apt to limit the Holy One of Israel, and to say, some
things have worked together for our good. God says, all things,
joys, sorrows, crosses, prosperity, health, sickness, the gourd bestowed
and the gourd withered, the cup full and the cup emptied, the
lingering sickbed, the early grave. Often, indeed, would sight
and sense lead us to doubt the reality of the promise. We can
see in many things scarce a dim reflection of his love. Useful
lives taken, blossoms permanently plucked, spiritual props removed,
benevolent schemes blown up. but the Apostle does not say,
We see, but We know. It is the province of faith to
trust God in the dark. The uninitiated and undiscerning
cannot understand or explain the revolutions and dependencies
of the varied wheels in a complicated machine, but they have confidence
in the wisdom of the engineer that all is designed to work
out some great, useful end. Be it ours to write over the
mysterious dealing. This also comes from the Lord
of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working. Let us be still and know that
He is God. We have a wonderful advertisement
of a physician from the Spirit of Truth, says one, who heals
all your diseases. He requires but one thing, to
take all he has prescribed, bitter as well as sweet. He will yet
vindicate his own rectitude and faithfulness in our trials. Our
own souls will be made better for them. He himself will be
glorified in them. Doubt not, my love, he seems
to say. The day is coming when you shall
have all mysteries explained, all secrets unraveled, and this
very trial demonstrated to be one of the all things working
together for your good. Men see not the bright light
in the clouds, but it shall come to pass, that at evening time
it shall be light.