Does God condescend to show people the way through this world? He guides suns and planets in their orbits, so that they never wander from their course. He directs them so carefully, so accurately, that in all the vast universe, with its millions of worlds and systems of worlds, there is absolute precision in all their movements, with not deviation, age, after all. No star is ever too fast or too slow. No planet ever leaves its orbit. The sun is never late in rising. God has marked out paths for the worlds, and He causes them to move in these paths.
But does He interest Himself in anything so small as the individual lives of men? Or, if he does give direction to the careers of great men who carry important destinies in their hands and are sent on missions of far reaching responsibility, does He give thought to the daily paths of each one of the millions of His children? Does He show a little child the road through the tangles? Does He guide a wandering one home? There is no doubt about the teaching of the Bible on this subject. For example, we are told that god is our Father. What are the qualities of fatherhood? Is there anything in the lives of children so small that their father is not interested in it? Is God, then, less kind than human parents? Browning puts the question thus:
“Do I find love so full in my nature, God’s ultimate gift,
That I doubt His own love can compete with it?
Here, the parts shift?
Here, the creature surpasses the Creator–the end, what began?”
Think, too, of the interest of Christ in us, as proved by what He has done for us. He came to earth and endured our mortal life, that He might learn the way by experience.
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