| The Best Things in Life |
Chapter 7 |
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There are those who think it dishonouring to our Master to say that he has a care for the little frets and worries of a poor family, or that he is concerned in the small affairs of a common household. They think his glory lifts him above all such trivial things. But there really is no perplexity too small to take to him. He manifested is glory here in just this – he thoughtful kindness.
We know that the divinest thing in this world is love. That in God which is greatest is not power, not the shining splendour of deity, but love, which shows itself in plain, lowly ways. When the disciples came to the Master, saying, “Show us the Father,” they were thinking of some brilliant display, some revealing of God which would startle men.
Jesus replied, “Have I been so long with you, and yet have you not known me?” He meant that the truest revealing of God to men is not in great theophanes, but in a ministry of gentleness, helpfulness, and kindness, such as Jesus had wrought through all the years.
Mrs. Browning tells us that nature is full of the glory of God. Every common bush is afire with God for those who have eyes to see the brightness. But the truth is that most of us have no eyes for the splendour. Here and there is one who, in the presence of God’s revealing, takes off his shoes in reverence. But people in general see nothing of divine glory and only “sit round and eat blackberries.”
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