God And My Dad

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When I reflect on Chapters 1 & 2 I think of Pauls words.
"I have to lead my life in faith, without seeing Him" 2 Cor. v. 7
And Hab. 2 v. 3 "Though it tarry, wait for it"
For a time we are conscious of God's attentions, then, when God begins to use us in His enterprises, we take on a pathetic look and talk of the trails and the difficulties, and all the time God is trying to make us do our duty as obscure people. None of us would be obscure spiritually if we could help it. Can we do our duty as obscure people.
Can we do our duty when God has shut up heaven? Some of us always want to be illuminated saints with golden haloes and the flush of inspiration, and to have the saints of God dealing with us all the time. A gilt-edged saint is no good, he is abnormal, unfit for daily life, and altogether unlike God. We are here as men and women,
Not as half-fledged angels,
To do the work of the world, and to do it with an infinitely greater power to stand the turmoil because we have been born from above.
Though it tarry,
Patience is not indifference: patience conveys the ides of an immensely strong rock withstanding all onslaughts. The vision of God is the source of patience, because it imparts a moral inspiration. Daniel endured, not because he had a vision of God. He “endured, as seeing Him Who is invisible.” A man with the vision of God in not devoted to a cause or to any particular issue: he is devoted to God Himself. You always know when the vision is of God because of the inspiration that comes with it:
Things come with largeness and tonic to the life because everything is energized by God. If God gives you a time spiritually, as He gave his Son actually, of temptation in the wilderness, with no word from Himself at all, endure, and the power to endure is there because you see God.
If we try to re-introduce the rare moments of inspiration, it is a sign that it is not God we want. We are making a fetish of the moments when God ...