Topic: SEEING GOD IN EVERYTHING
One of the greatest obstacles to living unwaveringly this
life of entire surrender is the difficulty of seeing God in everything. People
say, “I can easily submit to things which come from God; but I cannot submit to
man, and most of my trials and crosses come through human instrumentality.” Or
they say, “It is all well enough to talk of trusting; but when I commit a
matter to God, man is sure to come in and disarrange it all; and while I have
no difficulty in trusting God, I do see serious difficulties in the way of trusting
men.”
This is no imaginary trouble, but it is of vital
importance, and if it cannot be met, does really make the life of faith an
impossible and visionary theory. For nearly everything in life comes to us
through human instrumentalities, and most of our trials are the result of
somebody’s failure, or ignorance, or carelessness, or sin. We know God cannot
be the author of these things, and yet unless He is the agent in the matter,
how can we say to Him about it, “Thy will be done”?
Besides, what good is there in trusting our affairs to
God, if, after all, man is to be allowed to come in and disarrange them; and
how is it possible to live by faith, if human agencies, in whom it would be
wrong and foolish to trust, are to have a predominant influence in moulding our
lives?
Moreover, things in which we can see God’s hand always
have sweetness in them which consoles while it wounds. But the trials inflicted
by man are full of bitterness.
What is needed, then, is to see God in everything, and to
receive everything directly from His hands, with no intervention of second
causes. And it is just to this that we must be brought, before we can know an
abiding experience of entire abandonment and perfect trust. Our abandonment
must be to God, not to man
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