“Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do you look one upon another? And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: Get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.”
Genesis 42:1-2.
GOD in His wisdom has so made the outward world, that it is a strange and wonderful picture of the inner world. Nature has an analogy with grace. The wonders that God does in the heart of man, each of them finds a parallel, a picture, a metaphor, an illustration, in the wonders which God performs in providence. It is the duty of the minister to always look for these analogies. Our Savior did so. He is the model preacher, His preaching was made up of parables, pictures from the outer world, accommodated to teach great and mighty truths. And so is man’s mind constituted, that we can always see a thing better through a picture than anyway else. If you tell a man a simple truth, he does not see it nearly so well as if you told it to him in an illustration.