Gold Nugget 216 - The Great Thinker

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      God is the great Thinker.  All our philosophy is the attempt of man to spell out some of the ideas of God.  What wisdom was requisite for the creation of the world and the ordering of all things, from the movements of a star down to the life of a cell!  What wisdom is involved in the government of the world, maintaining life and gladness, developing the latent resources of the universe, making all things work together for good, ruling great kingdoms and individual lives in justice and mercy!

      But a higher wisdom is required for redemption.  It is more difficult to regenerate than to create, to regain Paradise than to form it at the first. …

      Many purposes may be aimed at in redemption beyond what we can see, and thus many processes which to us look meaningless find their end.  The water is not taken over the mill-wheel simply that it may find its nearest course to the river, nor is the Christian led over a broken path because that is the nearest way to heaven. …

      Our lives … are linked to other worlds.  What happens to us has bearings elsewhere.  This thought may help us to face some mystery of life.  As in the case of Job, what is humanly unintelligible may be explained when it is seen that the beings of another sphere are being instructed through our experience.

      If the highest intelligences “desire to look into” these things, and see the manifold wisdom of God in them, surely we men should treat the works of redemption with profound reverence, and regard the study of them as worthy of hour highest thought. 

The Pulpit Commentary, Ephesians p. 142-143, Ephesians 3:10, (W. F. Adeney)

Gold Nugget 216

The Great Thinker

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