The answers we so much seek – Sunday, March 27, 1955
No doubt most of us tell ourselves at times what we would do differently if we were running the world, or the universe. We see things and people that should be improved, and wrongs that should be righted.
Sometimes we see someone who surely seems to be getting away with something. We see inertia, injustice, indifference, delay. We have unanswered questions, and our hearts cry out, at times, for the answers—and we want them right now—and are sometimes so insistent that we sometimes accept substitutes.
Sometimes, for example, we embrace theories that do not stand the test of time, but for the moment seem somewhat to satisfy. Sometimes, also, we might feel sure that we know precisely what is good for all other men—so sure that we might feel justified in forcing them to our thinking for them.
But the Lord God has given men their freedom, and who are we, and how wise would we be, to take from them the freedom God has given?
Part of our impatience comes from seeing only part of the picture. We see the present short scenes, but have forgotten what preceded our entrance here, and are a little loath to wait for the certainties and assurances of everlasting life.
Patience isn’t an easy lesson to learn. But sooner or later, we learn that life demands patience. Sooner or later, we learn that we can’t pry open all the answers, or quickly remake other men, or take all things into our own hands.
And sooner or later we also learn that time and justice and Providence answer many things in their own way, and solve many problems in their own time, and overtake all men and all events, and give their own answers to the things that try and trouble us.
Faith, patience, and a little time, and a little working at what needs working at, will work many miracles, will answer many questions, will soften many sorrows, heal many wounds, and right man wrongs.
Faith and patience and time and intelligent work will help us to live life with a blessed, settled assurance of the rightness of the ultimate outcome, and will help us find the answers we so much seek.
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March 27, 1955
Broadcast Number 1,336