To be near unto God - pagina 334

and appointment always accompanies us. not what would smile on us this year, but what must happen with us, for the accomplishment of his plan regarding us, determines what the year will bring. And why it must be so and not otherwise we can not understand now, but

his plan

And

we

will

in

the

hereafter.

He who

forgets

this

has no peace. He who with all his soul enters into the eternal activity of God, rests, whatever comes, in the Father's faithfulness. If within the narrow confines of time we reckon by the day and the week, and the heart turns bitter every time things go wrong and bring nothing but disappointment, we become the prey of uneasiness and gloom. Then complaint becomes unceasing, and the habit of seeing all things black overwhelms us. Then there is no heroism of faith, no inspiration to face destiny and no joy in God. Thousands and thousands spend all their days in cold indifference or in hopeless enThey are but a play-ball before the deavor. wind of the day and sink far below the dignity of m.an. Does not the prophet say, Eccles. 3:11 that God hath set eternity in the heart? This but means that God has given us power from amid the whirling time-flakes all around us to lift ourselves up to the sure levels of the eternal. With eternity set in the heart let every child of God bravely face the newly-opening year. He knows that the God whom he worships owns the goings of the age, and therefore disposes and appoints human life purely in accordance with He prays that he may the claims of eternity. have peace and joy, for the heart craves happiness. But if the year must bring him periods when 326

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