John 4:4
But He needed to go
through Samaria.
One of the great things to
notice is that God’s order comes to us in the haphazard. We try to plan our
ways and work things out for ourselves, but they go wrong because there are
more facts than we know; whereas if we just go on with the days as they come,
we find that God’s order comes to us in that apparently haphazard way. The man
who does not know God depends entirely on his own wits and forecasting. If,
instead of arranging our own programs, we will truly trust to the wisdom of God
and concentrate all our efforts on the duty that lies nearest, we shall find
that we meet God in that way and in no other. When we become “amateur providences” and arrange times and
meetings, we may cause certain things to happen, but we very rarely meet God in
that way; we meet Him most effectively as we go on in the ordinary ways. Where
you look for God, He does not appear; where you do not look for Him, there He
is – a trick of the weather, a letter, and suddenly you are face-to-face with
the best thing you ever met. This comes out through the life of Jesus Christ;
it was the most natural thing for Him to go through Samaria.
Excerpts from Oswald
Chambers
Daily Devotional Bible,
Reading 135 (5/15)
From He Shall Glorify
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