It is not a bit of good struggling for the premature unfolding of the Divine mystery . The revelation awaits our arrival at a certain place in the road, and when Time brings us to that place and we enter into its experiences, we shall find, to our delighted surprise, that it has become luminous.

And so the only thing we need to be concerned about is to be on the King’s high road, stepping out in accordance with His most holy will.

“Light is sown for the righteous” (Psalm 97:11 KJV).

It is the end which justifies all and explains all. It is to the ultimate goal that God’s eye is ever turning. At the right moment the shining harvest will appear! What though the seed may seem to perish in the dark cold ground! What will that matter when the blade bursts forth and the ear unfolds and the full corn waves over the golden harvest field?

Luther was once in earnest prayer over some matter of great moment, desiring to know the mind of God in it; and it seemed as though he heard God say to him, “I am not to be traced.”

If God is not to be traced, He is to be trusted.

“Afterward Jesus appeared again to his disciples” (John 21:1).

However dark the nows may be in your experience, the afters of God are worth waiting for!

As we think of God’s dealings with His children, we are impressed with His leisureliness. God’s ways may be hidden, but wait for God’s afters!