The Best — Part 1
The following story illustrates how our God knows best what is needed in each of our lives.
Many years ago there was found in a South African mine a most magnificent diamond. It was presented to Edward VII, King of England, to blaze in his crown of state. The King sent it to Amsterdam to be cut by an expert. What do you suppose the expert did with it?
He took the gem of priceless value and cut a notch in it. Then he struck it a hard blow with his instrument, and the superb jewel lay in his hand, cleft in two. For days and weeks that blow had been studied and planned. Drawings and models had been made of the gem. Its quality, its defects, it lines of cleavage had all been studied with minutest care. The man to whom it was committed was one of the most skillful diamond cutters in the world.
Was that blow a mistake? No! It was the climax of that man’s career! We have one who created us, and knows us through and through. Job said, “Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this? In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind” (Job 12:9-10).
