July 1927
T h e K i n g ’ s
B u s i n e s s
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“The trying of your faith worketh patience, and patience expe rience, and experience hope.” As the thews and sinews of the athlete are developed by his exercise, so we grow strong through the trials by which we are beset. And lastly, temptation fits us for wider usefulness. We can never succour them that are tempted; we can never really sympathize with the sorrowing; we can never be patient and forbearing with the fallen, until we have passed through the furnace ourselves. “The ‘visage marred’ begets the sense of pain; Our own tears give the power all other tears to explain.” PEOPLE sometimes question, not only the wisdom, but the justice of God. We should remember that, apart from its-sinful ness, such an attitude of mind is foolish in the extreme. What ever He does must of necessity be right. He is the sole foun tain of all morality. His thoughts and His deeds are the only true standards of justice, and they are standards which He can not transgress. Hence if He appears to deviate from our ideas of right.and wrong, we may be sure that our code of ethics needs revision; the fault lies, not in the Divine procedure, but- in the human conception of what is fitting and proper.. We are fallible creatures at the best; He is infallible. We must, of course, make sure, .first of all, that what we attribute to Him is really the result of His operation or His will. He permits many things in the world of which He . does not approve. But to summon the Deity to the bar of our puny, finite wisdom ; to judge Him by our petty, purblind codes of honor; to accuse Him of doing evil because He does not conform to our preconceived notions of the fitness of things, is little short of blasphemy, and can only work in us the gravest spiritual and moral harm. He may (and does) do things, and permit things, which we cannot understand, and with which we do not agree. We may feel that, under thè same circumstances, we should have acted very dif ferently ; but we can, and ought, always to say of God, with per fect confidence, “Just and right is He.” WE are apt to be much more concerned with our neighbor’s duties than with our own. Peter asked in reference to John: “What shall this man do?” and the answer was: “What is that to thee? follow thou me.” If we spent less time in criticizing other people, or in making plans for their occupation, we should be more at liberty to follow the Master ourselves. Satan loves to induce us to be busy with the spiritual affairs of dur fellow men, in order that he may withdraw our attention and our energies from the faithful discharge of the duties which concern our selves. Whenever we excuse our shortcomings on the ground that we know others who are worse than we, the Master says to u s: “What is that to thee ?” When we omit our duty or neg lect the means of grace because sojne one else has failed to ful fil his obligations -in those respects, we incur the same rebuke as Peter: “What is that to thee? follow thou me.” We are not responsible for our neighbors’ conduct; we are neither their rulers nor their judges; to their own Master they stand or fall— our business is to see to it that we ourselves follow Christ. We shall be judged at the Last Day, not by comparison with those by whom we were surrounded, but by the standard of personal duty. Let us strive that, whosoever may fail, we at least may be faithful and constant in the service of the Lord. J uly 20. “Just and right is He." — Deut. 32:4. J uly 21. “What shall this man do?" — Jno. 21:21.
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