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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 7, 1909

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 86, No. 40.

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“WE know,” said Paul, “that all things work together for good to them that love God.” Rom. 8:28. The margin of the Revised Version suggests an even stronger assurance: “God worketh all things.” It is not the things working, but God working the things.
It is often difficult to see how the things can work for our good, when they seem rather to be working out evil. But back of the things, overruling the circumstances that are forbidding or evil, stands One who loves his children, and who is able to turn even adversity into blessing.
THAT is what we need to know while in the trial. “We know,” said Paul; and the apostle’s oft-repeated positives stir our flagging spirits always with new courage. We know that God worketh and overruleth to give grace and comfort, and to extract from the very bitterness some sweet of Christian grace and experience.
We may not see how it can be. But that is because God works so wondrously. It is our part to know it is so. Then may we wait in hope and endure patiently until we see of his salvation. “All these things are against me,” cried the aged, sorrowing patriarch Jacob. It looked that way; but really all those things were being worked for him by a loving Father. It is one of the lessons hardest to learn. Again and again we must go over it. But by all the story of God’s dealings with men, not willing that any should perish, and by all the exceeding great and precious promises, let us hold to this truth, and seek for grace to say even in the trial, “We know that all things work together for good to them that love God.”