"FOR my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord." Isa. 55:8. This has been proved many times over in the experience of every Christian. Ways that seemed right to us because we desired to walk in them, afterwards turned out to be contrary to the will of God; and it has been proved, even more truly, that God's thoughts are not our thoughts. We murmur many times because God desires us to walk in paths of his choosing, and yet we afterward find that these ways are ways of mercy, and have enabled us to become acquainted with phases of God's character hitherto unknown to us. With our finite minds it is possible for us to comprehend only a small part of the infinitude of God. If God's methods of dealing seem strange to us at times, let us strive to recognize in this fact a reminder of our own weakness and lack of knowledge; and let this discovery of our own inefficiency only stimulate us to become more acquainted with God, that we may learn to trust him through shade as well as sunshine.