God's Thought for Us by Anon.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Mar 28, 1907

God's Thought for Us

By Anon.

EVERY beautiful flower, feathery fern, graceful palm, or singing bird tells us of God's love for us. The spirit of prophecy assures us that beautiful things were placed in the earth by our Father with the express purpose of affirming his love to us. Then so long as the spotless water-lily with its delicate fragrance can be found, or the rose with its fascinating beauty, we have no reason to doubt God's love, or his willingness to establish upon us his own beauty. The consciousness of this fact brings him very near to us.

A little fellow without father or mother was being taken by a stranger to a strange home. As they rode along, the boy often put his hand into his blouse as if to make sure of some treasure. The curiosity of his companion was aroused sufficiently to lead him to ask the little fellow if he had something he prized especially. The boy rather hesitatingly revealed his secret. “It’s just a piece of mother’s dress. When I get kind—kind o’ lonesome—I like to feel it. Most seems as if she—wasn’t so far off.” It should be thus with the things of nature all about us. Our Father meant that they should make him seem very near to us, that they should often remind us of his love, and of the beauty of the One altogether lovely, and by their grace and beauty remind us of the Christian graces we should be daily cultivating.—Anon.