“Let us leave God alone!
Why should I doubt he will explain in time
What I feel now, but fail to find the words?”
There is a wondrous power of explanation in “afterward.” Things do not seem to us today as they will seem tomorrow. This is the key which the Scriptures give us for the solution of the strange mystery of affliction. “No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness.” There are many things in God’s way with his people which, at the time, are dark and obscure, but which the future makes clear and plain. Today’s heavy clouds tomorrow are gone; and under the bright shining of the sun, and the deep blue of the sky, the flowers are sweeter, the grass is greener, and all life is more beautiful. Today’s tears tomorrow are turned into lenses through which eyes, dim no longer, see far into the clear heavens, and behold the kindliness and radiance of God’s face.
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