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may attain. Teach the gospel in simple object lessons. Let everything
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with which you have to do be a lesson in character building.
In the humble round of toil, the very weakest, the most obscure,
may be workers together with God and may have the comfort of His
presence and sustaining grace. They are not to weary themselves
with busy anxieties and needless cares. Let them work on from
day to day, accomplishing faithfully the task that God’s providence
assigns, and He will care for them. He says:
“In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and sup-
plication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto
God.” “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6
,
A.R.V.;
4:7
.
The Lord’s care is over all His creatures. He loves them all and
makes no difference, except that He has the most tender pity for
those who are called to bear life’s heaviest burdens. God’s children
must meet trials and difficulties. But they should accept their lot with
a cheerful spirit, remembering that for all that the world neglects to
bestow, God Himself will make up to them in the best of favors.
It is when we come into difficult places that He reveals His power
and wisdom in answer to humble prayer. Have confidence in Him
as a prayer-hearing, prayer-answering God. He will reveal Himself
to you as One who can help in every emergency. He who created
man, who gave him his wonderful physical, mental, and spiritual
faculties, will not withhold that which is necessary to sustain the life
He has given. He who has given us His word—the leaves of the tree
of life—will not withhold from us a knowledge of how to provide
food for His needy children.
How can wisdom be obtained by him who holds the plow and
drives the oxen? By seeking her as silver, and searching for her as
for hid treasure. “For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and
doth teach him.”
Isaiah 28:26
. “This also cometh forth from Jehovah
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of hosts, who is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.”
Verse 29
, A.R.V.
He who taught Adam and Eve in Eden how to tend the garden,
desires to instruct men today. There is wisdom for him who drives
the plow and sows the seed. Before those who trust and obey Him,
God will open ways of advance. Let them move forward coura-