| Finding the Way |
Chapter 16 |
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We may learn form our Master how to endure wrong so as not to be hurt by it. “When He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously.” He did not take the righting of His wrongs into His own hands. He had power and could have summoned legions of angles to fight for Him, but He did not lift a finger in His own defense. When Pilate spoke to Jesus of his power to crucify or release Him, Jesus said, “Thou wouldst have no power against Me, except it was given thee from above.” God could build a wall of granite about us, if He would, so that no enemy can touch us. He could shield us so that no power on earth can do us any hurt. He could deliver us from every enemy. We should remember when we are suffering injury or injustice at the hand of others, that God could have prevented it. He could have held back the hand that it should not touch us. He could have ordered that no harm should be done to us, that we should suffer no injury.
This wrong that you are suffering, whatever it is, is therefore from God, something He permits to come to you. It is not an accident, a lawless occurrence, something that has broken away from the Divine control, something that God could not prevent breaking into your life. In nature not a drop of water in the wildest waves of the sea ever gets away from the leash of law. Law reigns everywhere, in things small and great.
“The very law that moulds a tear
And bids it trickle from its source;
That law preserves the earth a sphere,
And guides the planets in their course.”
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