(John MacDuff, "Ripples in the Twilight" 1885)
"And we know that all things work together for good
to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also
did predestinate to be conformed to the
image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren."
Romans 8:28-29
In that great block of uncut marble, there is, in the mind of the sculptor, a slumbering angel. As chip by chip flies off, the form becomes crudely and slowly developed. In the course of time--after months of long labor--his conception is realized, and the masterpiece is completed.
God is the Supreme Sculptor, and it is very often by the chisel and mallet of affliction that He is now fabricating and fashioning His people for Heaven. The tools are in His hands. Let us trust Him that no stroke is unnecessary or redundant in the working out of His own Divine ideal, which is nothing short of this, "to be conformed to the image of His Son."
"Now he that hath wrought ('chiseled'--so the word means) us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 5:5)
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In that great block of uncut marble, there is, in the mind of the sculptor, a slumbering angel. As chip by chip flies off, the form becomes crudely and slowly developed. In the course of time--after months of long labor--his conception is realized, and the masterpiece is completed.
God is the Supreme Sculptor, and it is very often by the chisel and mallet of affliction that He is now fabricating and fashioning His people for Heaven. The tools are in His hands. Let us trust Him that no stroke is unnecessary or redundant in the working out of His own Divine ideal, which is nothing short of this, "to be conformed to the image of His Son."
"Now he that hath wrought ('chiseled'--so the word means) us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit." (2 Corinthians 5:5)
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