OUR WAYS | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 15, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 48.

OUR WAYS.

How much disposed we are to choose our own way and take charge of our own interests, without any regard to an overruling Providence! With all our ignorance and weakness we think that we can best direct our own course and manage our own affairs. Perhaps this is true so far as our fellow-men are concerned, who know less about our matters than we do ourselves; but it is not true so far as our heavenly Father is concerned, who knows all about us, and who has infinite resources at his command.

We are directed to cast our burden and care upon the Lord, and the psalmist exhorts us to commit our way unto him. Were we to follow this counsel, and daily and hourly implore the divine direction, and with filial trust commit all our interests into the hand of our heavenly Father, who can doubt the fulfillment of the divine promise, that all things shall work together for our good? We may not be able always to see how this can be, but trusting in him who has promised, we are resigned and happy in our lot, knowing that what may not be a present comfort is a necessary means toward an ultimate good.

All our anxiety comes from the fear that something is going wrong, and that some disaster, which we cannot avert, will ultimately overtake us. But when we commit all our interests into the hand of our heavenly Father, who is infinitely wise and good, and who has promised to watch over us and take care of us, we know that under his watchful eye no evil can befall us. What cause, then, have we for anxious and corroding care? Implicit trust in God would bring peace and comfort to our minds. He knows what is best; and if we commit our way unto him, he will do for us what he sees to be best; and what more can we desire? It is only when we want to manage our affairs in our own way, and for our own purposes, without regard to the divine will, that we get into trouble. The great remedy for all our trouble is unreserved consecration to God, and implicit confidence in his goodness and fatherly care.—Selected.