Man's ways & God's ways

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Man's ways and God's ways differ in well near every respect. Man's ways are hastily planned, and for the most part imperfectly executed. God's ways are designed with infinite wisdom, and performed with infinite power.

Man's aim is the aggrandizement of self in some shape or form. Pleasure or profit, of some kind or other, is the mainspring of all his actions. The aim of God is His own eternal glory.

Man, when bent upon any particular object, leaps hastily towards it, and cannot brook the slightest obstacle.

God slowly brings about His own eternal purposes, in the face of every obstacle, and in spite of all opposition or contradiction from earth or hell. Man's purpose is to bring things to a rapid conclusion—no sooner does he scatter the seed, than he wants to reap the harvest.

God's plans are carried out through a series of years; and, as they are planned with infinite wisdom, so they are brought to pass by a succession of apparently opposing and contradictory events.