A Small Section of the Visible Course.
... All of the past, i believe, is a part of God's story of each child of His- a mystery of love and sovereignty, written before the foundation of the world, never a hindrance to the task He has designed for us, but rather the very preparation suited to our particular personality's need.
"How can that be?" ask those whose heritage has not been a godly one as mine was, whose lives have not been peaceful. "It is the glory of God to conceal a thing" (Proverbs 52:2). God conceals much that we do not need to know, yet we do not know that He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out. When does that begin? Does the Shepherd overlook anything that the sheep need?
William Kay's note on Psalm 73:22 is this: "Though i was supported by Thee and living 'with Thee' as thy guest, yet i was insensible to Thy presence;- intent only on a small section of the visible course of things;- like the irrational animals that are ever looking down at the ground they are grazing."
"Yet i am perpetually with Thee, Thou hast laid hold on my right hand," wrote the psalmist. "Thou wilt guide me with Thy counsel and afterwards receive me in glory... And as for me, nearness to God is my good; i have put my trust in the Lord God." (Psalm73:22, 23, 24, 28)
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