The Voice of Infinite Love

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D.C. · Aug 17, 1916

The Voice of Infinite Love

MANY and varied are the means and agencies employed by the Master to teach us needed lessons. He speaks to us through his written Word, and through the impressions of his Holy Spirit, through the counsels of friends, and even through the criticisms of enemies. He speaks to us in the book of nature. The smiling sunshine, the gently blowing breeze, the merry songsters in the leafy treetops, the variegated flowers and foliage,— all bring messages of the Father's love. And no less does he speak to us through the power of the elements and through life's bitter experiences. The judgments of God bring messages of warning to the impenitent. They proclaim in thunder tones his invitation to repentance. Life's sorrows are his pruning sickles. Bitter trials become his furnace of purification, burning out of the human heart the lust of envy and the corroding canker of malice and jealousy.

Let us seek to discern the voice of Infinite Love speaking to us in every experience which befalls us. Let us seek to learn the lessons which these experiences would teach. If rightly regarded, they will give us largeness of heart, tenderness of spirit, breadth of mind. They will soften, subdue, and ennoble. They will teach us lessons which we may pass on to others in ministry to their need. The songs which we learn to sing in the darkness and in the midst of trial, will represent in us an experience of grace which we could obtain in no other way.