November 3

From: Comfort of the Scriptures By: John B. Marchbanks

• 1 min. read • grade level: 6

God has not told His redeemed people all that we might wish to know. And we must not only respect the utterances of Scripture, but its silences as well. We may not take away from God’s Word, nor may we add to it (Rev. 22:18-19¹⁸For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: ¹⁹And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelation 22:18‑19)). God does not always explain His dealings with His saints, and there is mystery about things which He allows to come in our lives, “for we walk by faith, not by sight.” But though we do not understand His dealings with us, we have His assurance that “all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.” And for this “cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.” Many times our Lord says to us, in effect, as He said to Peter, “What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.” But we trust Him, for “with Him is wisdom and strength, He hath counsel and understanding,” and “no good thing will He withhold from them that walk uprightly.”

We know not how He worketh

To bless and help His own,

But His grace always abounds

When we are sad and lone.

2 Cor. 5:7; 4:15-16; John 13:7; Job 12:13; Psa. 84:11.