p. 151 | SECRET THINGS

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Nov 9, 1876

SECRET THINGS.

“The secret things belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.” Deut. 29:29.

You are surrounded with mysteries in the world. You meet with them above you, around you, within you. In every blade of grass, in every insect that flutters in the sunbeam, in every beating heart, there is much that you cannot understand. Knowledge has, indeed, made mighty progress; and yet there are multitudes of secret things on all sides of us which nature has not whispered in the ear of her most ardent votaries. And so in Providence there are many mysteries. We cannot see at present the whys and wherefores of God’s dealings with men. Clouds and darkness are round about him. In the Bible, too, there are mysteries which the mind of man cannot grasp. Be not disquieted and perplexed with these; a day of revelation will come.

Attend to these things which belong to you. Act from day to day simple faith in Christ. Set yourself earnestly to the performance of all plainly-commanded duty; and look forward hopefully to a time when, endowed with loftier powers than those you now possess, you will be privileged to make discoveries which it has not entered into the heart of man to conceive.

I cannot always trace the way Where thou, Almighty One, dost move; But I can always, always say That God is love. When fear her chilling mantle flings O’er earth, my soul to Heaven above, As to her native home, upsprings, For God is love. —R. S. Hutton, M. A.