When God sends us on a journey over steep and flinty paths
he will not fail to provide us with suitable shoes.
Asher's portion was not an accidental one; it was of God's choosing.
Nor is there any accident in the ordering of the place, the conditions,
the circumstances, of any child of God's. Our times are in God's
hands. No doubt, then, the hardnesses and difficulties of any one's
lot are part of the divine ordering for the best growth of the person's
life.
There was a compensation in Asher's rough portion. His rugged hills
had iron in them. This law of compensation runs through all God's
distribution of gifts. In the animal world there is a wonderful
harmony, often noted, between the creatures and the circumstances and
conditions amid which they are placed. The same law rules in the
providence of human life. One man's farm is hilly and hard to till,
but deep down beneath its ruggedness, buried away in its rocks, there
are rich minerals. One person's lot in life is hard, with peculiar
obstacles, difficulties and trials; but hidden in it there are
compensations of some kind. One young man is reared in affluence and
luxury. He never experiences want or self-denial, never has to
struggle with obstacles or adverse circumstances. Another is reared in
poverty and has to toil and suffer privation. The latter seems to have
scarcely an equal chance in life.
Pages:
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188
189
190
191