God's Minute

May 3

For we know that all things work together for good.--Romans 8:28

O LORD, how slow we are to recognize Thee when Thou comest in disguise! We know Thee when Thou comest in robes of light, but not when thou art clothed in clouds. Help us to learn Thy ways, and to thank Thee for all that Thou doest. We would thank Thee when Thou puttest us into the fires of affliction, knowing that there Thou revealed Thyself as the gracious Sanctifier and great Deliverer. How often Thou hast come to us in lowly ways, and we have not seen Thee because we did ot expect to see Thee there. Sometimes Thou comest to us in heaven's glowing chariots, and we do not mistake Thee then; but more often Thou comest through earth's common places, and like Mary, we suppose Thee to be the Gardener and not the Lord. But, O, may we, as she, enquire of the gardener about Him Whom we love, and Thou mayest reveal Thyself to us as Thou didst to her. Thou hast been doing for each of us all that Thou didst for Thy saints of old, but the blight of unbelief has been upon us, and that which Thou didst design for blessing has been a curse. O, Lord, forgive! O Lord, forget! O, Lord prevent! To Thy wounds we flee, and in Thy merits we hide. Wilt Thou Who hast given us life give us also spiritual sensibility, hearing, and sight, and taste for all that is divine. And now unto Thee, Father, Son, and Spirit, be glory and praise.

Amen.

Rev. W. Graham Scroggie,
Sunderland, England

From the link:

What if there had never been a Bible?

Christians do not worship the Bible, but the God who therein is revealed, but we do realize, or we ought to, that the Bible which makes the redeeming God known to us is, beyond all estimate, our most precious heritage.