[Manna - December 13]
Lay not this sin to their charge. Acts 7:60
HOW great a blessing it would be for all spiritual
Israelites to learn well this lesson; viz., that if we
accept the results of any matter as being good, and
if we realized that we were guided to those results by
divine providence, we should think and feel most
generously, most kindly, toward those who were the
instruments used by providence, notwithstanding the
fact that they might have been unwilling instructors,
or, like Joseph's brethren, have verily intended opposite
results.
Those who are enabled to take such
a view of affairs and forces operating in their daily
lives are enabled "always to triumph through the
Lord," as the apostle expresses it.
And such find no
room for bitterness or railing, either against Satan or
against any of his servants. Z. '01-331 R2896:1