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My Daily Meditation For The Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

FEBRUARY The Twenty-third THE PROCESS AND THE END

|Ye have seen the end of the Lord: that the Lord
is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.|
-- JAMES v.7-11.

And so we are bidden to be patient. |We must wait to the end of the Lord.| The Lord's ends are attained through very mysterious means. Sometimes the means are in contrast to the ends. He works toward the harvest through winter's frost and snow. The maker of chaste and delicate porcelain reaches his lovely ends through an awful mortar, where the raw material of bone and clay is pounded into a cream. In that mortar-chamber we have no hint of the finished ware. But be patient, even in this chamber of affliction the ware is on the way to glory!

And so it is with the ministries of our Lord. He leads us through discords into harmonies, through opposition into union, through adversities into peace. His means of grace are processes, sometimes gentle, sometimes severe; and our folly is to assume that we have reached His ends when we are only on the way to them. |The end of the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.| |Be patient, therefore,| until it shall be spoken of thee and me, |And God saw that it was good.|

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