| Finding the Way |
Chapter 2 |
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For one thing, we are quite sure that God desires to lead us. His guidance includes not only our daily steps, but also the shaping of our circumstances and affairs. We cannot be thankful enough that our lives are in God’s hands, for we never could care for them ourselves. One writes:
“I would not dare, though it were offered me,
To plan my lot for but a single day,
So sure am I that all my life would be
Marked with sad blots in token of my sway.”
There is no chance in this world. Every drop of water in the wild waves, in the most terrific storm, is controlled by law, and God is back of the law. In these days, with their wonderful advance in science, some good people are asking if there is any use in praying, for example, for the sick, for favourable weather, for safety of the ship that bears loved ones of theirs on the sea, or for the staying of the epidemic. It seems to them that all things are under fixed laws with which no prayer can interfere. How, then, can God lead each one of his children in any ways save according to the fixed and unalterable laws of the universe? We need not try to answer this question, but we may say that God would not be God if He were in such bondage to the laws of His own world that He could not hear the cry of a child for help, and answer it, or if He could not open a way for you out of the greatest difficulties.
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