There are winter times with blight and cold and fruitlessness
and storm for us all; times when we do not see that the
wonder-workings of the divine care are on us. But they are on
us, definitely, “all the days.” The sun was not only bringing
the earth around all winter to a time when spring should break
forth; but the coal you burned to expel the winter’s cold that
same sun had caused to grow in ancient ages in its original
vegetation; the wood that enclosed the comforts of your home
and shut out the driving storm, that sun had caused to grow in
recent years; day by day all the winter through the sun sent
light to cheer your rooms while snows lay deep and winds were
wild; and day by day the sun purified the air and sterilized
germs of disease, and so made it possible for you to baffle
sickness and nurse your loved one back to health. The sun
was working for your good all the time. Even so our Lord is
ever working in us and in our lives to will and to do of his
good pleasure.--Monday Club, “Sermons on the International
Sunday-school Lessons for 1904.”
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