June 20

“The man who does the will of God lives forever.” — 1 John 2:17

God’s will is always the best; it is always divine love. A stricken wife, standing beside the coffin of her husband, said to a friend: “There lies my husband, my only earthly support, my most faithful human friend, one who has never once failed me; but I must not forget that there lies also the will of God, and that that will is perfect love.” By faith she saw good and the blessing, in what appeared to her, to be the wreck of all her happiness. But truly the good and the blessing are in every dark providence which comes into the life of God’s child. Our Father never means us harm in anything he does or permits. His word is, “I know the thoughts that I think toward you . . . thoughts of peace.”