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Behind the Scenes of Life, June 11
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead
them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness
light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I
do unto them, and not forsake them.
Isaiah 42:16
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In the annals of human history the growth of nations, the rise and
fall of empires, appear as dependent on the will and prowess of man.
The shaping of events seems, to a great degree, to be determined by
his power, ambition, or caprice. But in the Word of God the curtain is
drawn aside, and we behold, behind, above, and through all the play and
counterplay of human interests and power and passions, the agencies of
the all-merciful One, silently, patiently working out the counsels of His
own will....
Amidst the strife and tumult of nations, He that sitteth above the
cherubim still guides the affairs of the earth.... To every nation and to
every individual ... God has assigned a place in His great plan.... Men
and nations are being measured by the plummet in the hand of Him who
makes no mistake. All are by their own choice deciding their destiny,
and God is overruling all for the accomplishment of His purposes.
The history which the great I AM has marked out in His Word,
uniting link after link in the prophetic chain, from eternity in the past to
eternity in the future, tells us where we are today in the procession of
the ages, and what may be expected in the time to come.
All that prophecy has foretold as coming to pass, until the present
time, has been traced on the pages of history, and we may be assured
that all which is yet to come will be fulfilled in its order....
We need to study the working out of God’s purpose in the history of
nations and in the revelation of things to come, that we may estimate at
their true value things seen and things unseen; that we may learn what
is the true aim of life; that, viewing the things of time in the light of
eternity, we may put them to their truest and noblest use.
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