[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0610":3},"JUNE 10\r\nAnd we know that all things work together for good to them that love God (Rom. 8:28).\r\nHow wide is this assertion of the Apostle Paul! He does not say,\r\n\"We know that some things,\" or \" most things,\" or \"joyous things,\"\r\nbut \"ALL things.\" From the minutest to the most momentous; from the\r\nhumblest event in dally providence to the great crisis-hours in grace.\r\nAnd all things \"work\"-they are working; not all things have worked, or shall work; but it is a present operation.\r\nAt this very moment when some voice may be saying, \"Thy judgments are a great deep,\" the angels above, who are watching the\r\ndevelopment of the great plan, are with folded wings exclaiming, \"The Lord is righteous in all his ways, and holy in all his works.\"   (Psalm 145:17.)\r\nAnd then all things \"work together.\" It is a beautiful blending. Many different colors, in themselves raw and unsightly, are   required in order to weave the harmonious pattern.\r\nMany separate tones and notes of music, even discords and\r\ndissonances, are required to make up the harmonious anthem.\r\nMany separate wheels and joints are required to make the piece of machinery. Take a thread separately, or a note separately, or a\r\nwheel or a tooth of a wheel separately, and there may be neither use nor beauty discernible.\r\nBut complete the web, combine the notes, put together the separate parts of steel and iron, and you see how perfect and symmetrical is   the result Here is the lesson for faith: \"What I do thou knowest\r\nnot now, but thou shalt know hereafter.\" --Macduff.\r\nIn one thousand trials it is not five hundred of them that work for\r\nthe believer's good, but nine hundred and ninety-nine of them, and\r\n\r\none beside. --George Mueller.\r\nGOD MEANT IT UNTO GOOD (GEN. 50:20)\r\n\"God meant it unto good\"-O blest assurance, Falling like sunshine all across life's way,\r\nTouching with Heaven's gold earth's darkest storm clouds, Bringing fresh peace and comfort day by day.\r\n'Twas not by chance the hands of faithless brethren Sold Joseph captive to a foreign land;\r\nNor was it chance which, after years of suffering,    Brought him before the monarch's throne to stand.\r\nOne Eye all-seeing saw the need of thousands,\r\nAnd planned to meet it through that one lone soul; And through the weary days of prison bondage\r\nWas working towards the great and glorious goal.\r\nAs yet the end was hidden from the captive, The iron entered even to his soul;\r\nHis eye could scan the present path of sorrow, Not yet his gaze might rest upon the whole.\r\nFaith failed not through those long, dark days of waiting, His trust in God was recompensed at last,\r\nThe moment came when God led forth his servant To succour many, all his sufferings past.\r\n\"It was not you but God, that sent me hither,\" Witnessed triumphant faith in after days;\r\n\"God meant it unto good,\" no \"second causes\" Mingled their discord with his song of praise.\r\n\"God means it unto good\" for thee, beloved, The God of Joseph is the same today;\r\nHis love permits afflictions strange and bitter, His had is guiding through the unknown way.\r\nThy Lord, who sees the end from the beginning, Hath purposes for thee of love untold.\r\nThen place thy hand in His and follow fearless, Till thou the riches of His grace behold.\r\nThere, when thou standest in the Home of Glory, And all lite's path lies open to thy gaze,\r\nThine eyes shall SEE the hand which now thou trustest, And magnify His love through endless days.\r\n--Freda Hanbury Allen.",1783499793106]