
God's deeper meanings I We are apt to see a malicious meaning; are we equally  apt to detect the Divine and benevolent one? Our enemies are many, and they hate  us with perfect hatred; they are ever laying their plots, and working their  unholy purposes. But there is a greater and wiser than they, who, through all  these plottings, is prosecuting His Divine purpose. There is another and deeper  meaning than appears to the short sight of sense.
Let us believe that  there is a Divine and deeper meaning in the adversities of our lives. - Joseph  might be forgiven for not doing so; but with his history and that of many others  before us, we have no excuse for despair in the face of crushing sorrow. Whether  it comes from man or devil, all creatures are under the Divine control, holding  to our lips cups which the Father's hand has mixed. He has no complicity with  their evil, but they unconsciously perform His will. Even if you cannot see the  Divine meaning, dare to believe that it is there.
Await the disclosures  of time. - Even here we sometimes reach an eminence from which we detect the  meaning of the path by which we have been conducted. It may have been rough and  circuitous, but there was reason in it all. Often God rewards patient trust by  allowing us to see and know.
And for the full revelation of eternity. -  One day God will call us to His side in the clear light of eternity, and will  explain His meanings in life's most sorrowful experiences; and we shall learn  that we suffered, not for ourselves only, but for others, and, as part of His  great remedial scheme, "to save much people alive."