April 17
Consider Him
“His name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace” (Isa. 9:6).
“The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations” (Psa. 33:11).
We are filled with perplexity. Life is a labyrinth, the universe is a riddle, we walk in a maze. We are at our wit’s end. Wise men and philosophers cannot answer our anxious questions about the mystery of life; none can solve the problems of triumphant evil and thwarted goodness, of pain and sorrow and loss and death. And again we look, and lo! we discover that in Him “are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge” (Col. 2:3). He answers our questions. He solves our riddles. We rest in Him as our “Counselor.”
Again, we are oppressed with our utter littleness and weakness. We feel as helpless as an insect in the presence of the giant forces of the material universe. We are powerless to resist the vast world movements of men, the strikes, the conspiracies, the huge combinations, the wars, the political and social upheavals. And in our horror and despair we look again, and lo! we see Him in the earthquake and tempest, “towering o’er the wrecks of time,” stilling the storm, raising the dead, calming the fierce, wild passions of men, and slowly but surely enlightening and molding the nations; and we cry out, “The mighty God!”