Lately I have been seeing all that God is doing in me, all through things that to begin with I would have found 'ugly' or unwanted. I found an article and liked the analogy of a beautiful face under a black mask, because sometimes things that come into our lives we find ugly and don't want, and when these 'undesired' things occur, how we can at first see no good outcome, no beauty, and no reason for the situation at hand. God's Providence has a beautiful face under a black mask. To me that means that even though the trial, affliction, moment of delay, or troublesome may seem ugly to us at first, what we will learn from this will be such a beautiful thing and only bring us closer to God and all work for our good.
"That is a choice artist--who can play well upon a broken instrument. To be impatient with our affliction--and patient with our corruption; is to be angry with the medicine which heals us--and in love with the poison which kills us! Beloved, it is sometimes a mercy to us--that God removes outward mercies from us! He never wounds a saint to kill him--but to heal him! God does but take that out of your hands--which would thrust Him out of your heart!
Too many think that God is cutting down the whole tree--when He is but lopping off its wasteful branches. They imagine that He is demolishing the superstructure, when He is only laying a right foundation. Poor souls, He is not nipping the flowers--but plucking up the weeds! He is not laying your land fallow--but ploughing the field!
God's Providence has a beautiful face--under a black mask! "
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