He cares for you. I Peter 5:7. I. God's care provides a place for us. God did not make man till he had prepared a place for him, planting a garden "eastward in Eden," and filling it with fragrant flowers and all manner of pleasant fruits for his enjoyment. This was not an exceptional provision for man's early innocence alone. A place for his abode and work is an essential part of God's care, not only now, but forever. When Christ was leaving His disciples and thinking of the consummation of human life, He said, "I go to prepare a place for you." It is not always a garden. Rasselas, "Prince of Abyssinia," in Johnson's story, was unhappy in his lovely valley. But God has a place in His ordered system for every man, and that place underlies one's work and hope. Many years ago a young man talked to a company of students about a very self-denying and hazardous missionary work which he was just undertaking. He said that he was quite aware of the risks he was taking, but he was satisfied he was going to "just the place where God wished him to be". As he said this his face lighted up as if with a vision of heaven, and those students felt as if they were looking upon the angel face of Stephen. |
Sol Wise eCourses welcomes you today
to examine with us the matter of Our Wonderful Heavenly Father!
When the Lord Jesus Christ came to earth to earth, one of the most important lessons He taught,
was that when we pray, we should address God as Our Father.
No one before had ever taught us to view God as Father.
On this web site our aim is to highlight lessons about Our Father
adapted from articles by Franklin Noble III, D.D, written around 1907.
