Blessings Diffusive as Sunlight {a devotional}
That
ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh
his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the
just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:45.
I
see a providence in all of God’s works.... The clouds and rain, as well
as the bright sunshine, have their mission in blessings to man. The God
of nature knows just what we need and He moves forward in a straight
line, sending blessings upon the just and upon the unjust. I am so
grateful that finite minds cannot have the ordering of things. What
cross-purposes would be revealed!
There
is a narrowness in human comprehension that is dishonoring to God. Let
not him who claims Christ as his Saviour entertain the thought that
God’s mercies are confined to him and to the few in whom he is
interested. The love and mercy of God are for everyone. Let us gather up
the divine tokens of His favor, and return praise and thanksgiving to
Him for His goodness, which is bestowed upon us, not to be hoarded, but
to be passed along to others.... God expects everyone who enjoys His
grace to diffuse this grace as freely as Christ bestows His mercies. As
the sun shines upon the just and the unjust, so the Sun of Righteousness
reflects light to the whole world.
God’s
blessings, sunshine and showers, heat and cold, and every natural
blessing, are given to the world. Exclusiveness is not to be maintained
by any people. “I am the light of the world.” (John 8:12),
Christ said. Light is a blessing, a universal blessing, which pours
forth its treasures on a world unthankful, unholy, demoralized. The Lord
Jesus came to demolish every wall of exclusion, to throw open every
wall in the temple where God presides, that every ear may hear, that
every eye may see, that every thirsty soul may drink of the water of
life freely.
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