GOD'S METHOD | AdventAI

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Sep 4, 1901

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 27, No. 36.

GOD'S METHOD.

God permits us to dig in the fields, to work in factories, to write in offices, not because in this way we are to earn our living, but that, like children playing with blocks, we may learn the lesson upon which the game is founded. The loaf upon our table is no less a miracle than the manna that fell in the desert; but God allows us to handle and carry the loaf, that we may be taught the deeper truth hidden within. How to meet adversity, how to withstand prosperity, how to overcome difficulty, how to be patient in tribulation, how to value and exercise faith, loyalty to trust, devotion to duty, faithfulness under the strongest temptation, courage and self-reliance—all these are developed under the teachings of God’s providence, and life in its every part is a divine school, having lessons of the divinest character. In this way is God working out His great purpose, and fitting us for our final destiny.—Selected.