[Songs in the Night - June 27]
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9
IT IS when we get the grand sweep of the divine
plan that we can see God's ultimate purpose of vanquishing
sin and blessing all the families of the earth
with the knowledge of his goodness and with a favorable
opportunity for reformation—when we come to
see that the election of the Jewish age and also of this
Gospel age are but means to that grand end of blessing
the world.
Then we begin to discern how high are
God's ways above man's ways and God's plans above
man's schemes, and to discern the heights and depths
and lengths and breadths of God's love and provision
for the blessing of the world.
And proportionately as
we look upon this glorious picture we are strengthened
by his might in the inner man, and lifted out of our
narrowness and selfishness, and more and more constituted
images of God's dear Son, and thus also images
of the Heavenly Father.
O, then, that we might each
and all be of those who are known of the Lord as the
"very elect"—one of those whom he will use in the
present time in connection with his present work of
electing the little flock, and will be used by and by in
his great work of blessing all the families of the earth.
What trials and difficulties we might well endure with
such a prospect! Z'07-93 R3964:4 (Hymn 58)