Trusting God Without Searching
LET us never forget that the true attitude of faith is to lovingly trust God, not to attempt by searching to find him out. His "way is in the sea, and his footsteps are not known." When his people are in peril, he plows a pathway of deliverance through the waters; when they are hungry, he gives manna; when they need guidance, he supplies a pillar of cloud and of fire; when huge walls confront them, he brings them down with rams' horns; and so on to the end of the story. But he never tells them how he does these things. They get no help from philosophizing. The one supreme condition upon which their well-being hangs is to implicitly believe and obey his word. So long as they do that, they never fail of being led as through green pastures and beside still waters.—Sel.