This he said to prove him: for he himself knew what he would do. (John 6:6) At this very hour you may have to come face to face with a most tremendous need, and Christ stands beside you looking at it and questioning you about it. He says, in effect, “How are you going to meet it?”
He is scrutinizing you…watching you with a gentle tender sympathy. How many of us have failed in the test! We have taken out our pencil and our paper and commenced to figure out the two hundred pennyworth of bread; or we have run off hither and thither to strong and wealthy friends to extricate us; or we have sat down in utter despondency; or we have murmured against Him for bringing us into such a position. Should we not have turned a sunny face to Christ saying: Thou hast a plan! Thine is the responsibility, and Thou must tell me what to do. I have come so far in the path of obedience to Thy Guiding Spirit: and now, what art Thou going to do?
They understood not how that God by his hand would deliver them (Acts 7:25). It is so today.
Leave the HOW with Jesus,
Secret things He knows;
Infinite in wisdom,
Time will all disclose.
Leave the HOW with Jesus,
He will comfort bring;
Thro’ the storm He’ll hide thee
Underneath His wing.
“God does not explain to us His technique.”
“My times are in thy hand.” If you quote this verse to the native of Congo, he will translate it in the gorgeous words: “All my life’s whys and whens and wheres and wherefores are in God’s Hand!” DAN CRAWFORD
We want to know more than the silent God deems it good to tell; to understand the “why” which He bids us wait to ask; to see the path which He has spread on purpose in the dark. The Infinite Father does not stand by us to be catechized and to explain Himself to our vain minds; He is here for our trust.
Cowman, L. B. E.. Springs in the Valley (pp. 148-149). Zondervan. Kindle Edition.
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