Deuteronomy 29:29 The secret things belong to the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children for ever… The Rev. E.A. Stuart remarks, A little child was playing in the garden, and the crabbed old gardener came up to her and said, "Cissie, your father is going to kill a man tomorrow." "Oh no, William, I am sure he is not!" "Yes, he is, tomorrow morning, at eight o'clock, up there on the hill close to the grey old prison." "Oh no, William, I'm sure he is not! My father is too good and kind and gentle to do that."... "Father, it is not true, is it? You are not going to kill a man tomorrow? William says you are." The father was sheriff for the county, and had to superintend next morning the execution of a murderer, and it had been haunting him like a nightmare for the last three weeks. He was angry with the man who had so cruelly slandered him to his child, and yet he saw it was quite impossible for him to explain his duty to the little one, so he simply said, "Cissie, can't you trust father?" and the little one smothered all her doubts in her father's breast. And so when men come and perplex me with life's mysteries, I simply answer, "I can trust my Father, and throw myself upon His character." Parallel Verses KJV: The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law. |
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