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“In
Thy Light”
By:
Herman W. Gockel
A schoolteacher was taking
her sixth-graders on a trip through the city art museum. At
one point she noticed a group of three or four girls
standing puzzled and bewildered in front of a beautiful oil
painting that hung framed on the museum wall.
The girls were standing very
close to the painting, and it was evident that they were not
enjoying the work of art before them.
“Come over here,
girls,” the teacher called. “This is the point from
which the painter wanted you to look at his work.”
And from the middle of the
large museum room, a good distance from the painting itself,
the girls saw a beautiful landscape they had completely
missed when standing close up.
Frequently in the midst of
life, when we are surrounded by problems and perplexities
that call for immediate solutions, we shall do well to heed
the call of our Savior: “Come over here, My son, My
daughter. This is the point from which your heavenly
Father wants you to view your present circumstance.”
As Christians we are to lead
our entire lives, every moment of each day, in the
perspective of eternity. We are, so to speak, to find a
point of vantage outside our earthly pilgrimage. We are to
stand in the very presence of our heavenly Father and look
back with Him—as if looking from a mountaintop down into a
verdant valley.
From there we will see that
the road we are traveling, though steep and difficult at
present, leads surely to our Father’s house.
The psalmist expressed this
thought most beautifully when he said: “In Thy light shall
we see light” (Ps. 36:9) The light of our puny reason is
dim. It cannot reveal to us the entire landscape God has
painted for our lives.
But in His light, the light
that encompasses all eternity, we shall see the masterpiece
He has planned—even for our lives—the masterpiece
made possible by the glorious redemption that is ours
through Jesus Christ, our Lord. The masterpiece which, when
we see it from His perspective, includes both you and me
forever happy in the mansions of His Father.
In the midst of life, when
we are struggling with what seem to be almost insurmountable
problems, especially when we are struggling with them close
up, let us pray for the grace to see our problems in His
light.
Blind unbelief is sure to err
And
scan His work in vain;
God
is His own interpreter
And
He will make it plain.
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