Does God give more

Does God give more thought to trees and plants

— than to His own children?

"He led them by a right way" Psalm 107:7

God leads every one of His children by the right way. He knows where and under what influences, each particular life will ripen best. One tree grows best in the sheltered valley, another by the water's edge, another on the bleak mountaintop swept by storms.

There is a marvelous adaptation in all of nature — every tree or plant is found in the exact locality where the most favorable conditions for its growth exist. Does God give more thought to trees and plants — than to His own children? He also places us amid the circumstances and experiences in which our life will grow and ripen the best.

The peculiar discipline to which we are each subjected, is the discipline we each need to bring out in us the beauties and graces of true spiritual character. God knows what is best for us — and He makes no mistakes!

To follow Christ , is to go where He leads, without questioning or demurring. It may be to a life of trial, suffering, or sacrifice — but that does not matter; we have nothing whatever to do with the kind of life to which our calls us.

Our only simple duty is to obey and follow. We know that Jesus will lead us only in right paths, and that the way He takes slopes upward, and ends at the feet of God in glory. Each new day on which we are about to enter is unopened, and we know not what shall befall us; but if we follow Christ we need have no fear.

So let us leave the old day with gratitude to God for its mercies, with penitence for its failures and sins — and let us enter the new with earnest resolve in Christ's name to make it the best and most beautiful we have ever lived.

"And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose!" Romans 8:28

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