God's Mysterious Dealings
"Thou shalt shut the door upon
thee and upon thy sons" (2 Kings 4:4).
They were to be alone with God, for they were not dealing
with the laws of nature, nor human government, nor the church, nor the
priesthood, nor even with the great prophet of God, but they must needs be
isolated from all creatures, from all leaning circumstances, from all props of
human reason, and swung off, as it were, into the vast blue inter-stellar
space, hanging on God alone, in touch with the fountain of miracles.
Here is a part in the programme of God's dealings, a secret
chamber of isolation in prayer and faith which every soul must enter that is
very fruitful.
There are times and places where God will form a mysterious
wall around us, and cut away all props, and all the ordinary ways of doing
things, and shut us up to something Divine, which is utterly new and
unexpected, something that old circumstances do not fit into, where we do not
know just what will happen, where God is cutting the cloth of our lives on a
new pattern, where He makes us look to Himself.
Most religious people live in a sort of treadmill life,
where they can calculate almost everything that will happen, but the souls that
God leads out into immediate and special dealings, He shuts in where all they
know is that God has hold of them, and is dealing with them, and their
expectation is from Him alone.
Like this widow, we must be detached from outward things and
attached inwardly to the Lord alone in order to see His wonders. --Soul
Food
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