DIVINE PROVIDENCE by Mrs. C. A. Haas

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 28, 1901

DIVINE PROVIDENCE.

By Mrs. C. A. Haas

MRS. C. A. HAAS.

(Battle Creek, Mich.)

WHEN contemplating the operations of divine providence, we are often confused and entangled because we are looking through a glass darkly. We see the handwriting on the wall, but cannot interpret it.

When the Lord said to Abraham, “Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred,” it was all a mystery to him. Why it was necessary for him to be separated from his kindred, and go into a far country, he did not fully comprehend. Paul says, “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.” He was obliged to walk in the shadow; but still he walked, because God commanded. Such was his faith in divine providence that he would go forward, no matter how dark the way might seem.

From his experience, as well as from instruction given in other portions of the Bible, Christians should learn to go where divine providence leads. There is nothing lost in obeying God. We can go anywhere if our Father says, “Go forward.”