IF God explained all His ways with us beforehand we would no longer walk by faith, but by sight. He leads us along strange paths, and through new and peculiar experiences that we may learn how marvelously His grace can sustain, and how blessedly His wisdom can plan. It is not necessary that we should see the road ahead. It is only necessary that we trust our Guide. He knows the end from the beginning, and He never deviates from His purpose of blessing. When, at last, we have reached the city of God and look back over the way we have come, we shall praise Him for all His dealings with us, and we shall understand the reason for every trial.
“Hast thou wondered WHY He led thee.
By such strange and lonesome ways—
WHY thy future lay enshrouded
In a dark mysterious haze?
Wondered WHY thy feet are guided
Where the shadows thickly lie—
WHY the storms, and WHY the darkness,
WHY that cold and stormy sky?
Hush! He speaks. He whispers to thee.
‘By a way thou hast not known.
I have led thee by a pathway.
Marked out solely for My own.’”
―M. E. Rae.