. No philosopher could have told me
about the sun if the sun did not shine. No power of meditation and thought
can grasp the presence of God. Be quiet, and trusting, and resting, and the
everlasting God will shine into your heart, and will reveal Himself. And
then, just as naturally as I enjoy the light of the sun, and as naturally
as I look upon the pages of a book knowing that I can see the letters
because the light shines; just as naturally will God reveal Himself to the
waiting soul, and make His presence a reality. God will take His place as
God in the presence of His child, so that absolutely and actually the
chief thing in the child's heart shall be: "God is here, God makes Himself
known." Beloved, is not this what you long for--that God shall take a place
that He has never had; and that God shall come to you in a nearness that
you have never felt yet; and, above all, that God shall come to you in an
abiding and unbroken fellowship? God is able to take His place before you
all the day. I repeat what I have referred to before, because God has
taught me a lesson by it: As God made the light of the sun so soft, and
sweet, and bright, and universal, and unceasing, that it never costs me a
minute's trouble to enjoy it; even so, and far more real than the light
shining upon me, the nearness of my God can be revealed to me as my abiding
portion. Let us all pray "that God may be all in all," in our everyday
life.

"That God may be all in all," I must not only allow Him to take His place,
but secondly, I must accept His will in everything. I must accept His will
in every providence. Whether it be a Judas that betrays, or whether it be
a Pilate in his indifference, who gives me up to the enemy; whatever the
trouble, or temptation, or vexation, or worry, that comes, I must see God
in it, and accept it as God's will to me. Trouble of any sort that comes to
me is God's will for me. It is not God's will that men should do the wrong,
but it is God's will that they should be in circumstances of trial. There
is never a trial that comes to us but it is God's will for us, and if we
learn to see God in it, then we bid it welcome.

Suppose away in South Africa there is a woman whose husband has gone on a
long journey into the interior. He is to be away for months from all posts.
The wife is anxious to receive news. In weeks she has had no letter or
tidings from him. One day, as she stands in her door, there comes a great,
savage Kafi