The Peace of God | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, March 10, 1885.

FromThe Advent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 10. Whole No. 1605.

The Peace of God.

There is no escape from calamity, and death; they are part of the inevitable order of human life, and sooner or later on every head the tempest breaks. Thank God for peace above the floods, for the safety of the storms, for the silence beyond the roar of the winds, for the calm seas at the heart of the typhoon! No human hand can stay the march of the elements; but the stricken can lay hold upon the Arm that moves winds and clouds. No breakwater or building can keep back the rushing tide of sorrow; but the wrecked can look up into the face of One who walked upon the sea, and through clouds and darkness have vision of him who bore the sorrows of the world, and might make his children feel the infinite love behind the mystery of suffering. That mystery God cannot explain to us, because the mighty range of his purpose sweeps beyond the low horizons of our thought; but he has put himself under the hard condition of our life, he has touched our sick ones, he has wept over our griefs, he has called back our dead, that he might make us understand that our sorrows are his sorrows, and that in the darkness of affliction his love and power are preparing the dawn of an eternal joy.—Selected.

—Pray for patience. Every day will bring something that will call for its exercise. Jerome.