Deuteronomy 1:39

"Handfuls of Purpose"

For All Gleaners

"Your little ones... shall go in thither." Deu 1:39

God's purposes are not to be broken off. Wherever they appear to be broken off it is only in detail and momentarily: the great line still stretches onward towards the completion of the eternal decree. It is not in the power of man to frustrate the purposes of heaven. Why do the heathen rage? The generations are one as to the divine intention, though multitudinous in their particular details; the divine thought, therefore, cannot be judged here and now or at any particular break in history, it must be judged when all is completed and sealed. The first shall be last and the last shall be first. Those who are little now may be great hereafter, The little are not condemned because of the sins of their ancestors. Our fathers have failed, but that is no reason why we should not succeed. God's regard is continually fixed upon character, and never upon mere personality. Heaven is for the good and for none else, so all wealth, power, fame go for nothing in view of that grand realisation. There is always a promise laid up for humanity. Better things are yet to grow upon the earth, and fairer lights are yet to shine on human history. The future has a continual influence upon the present. Posterity ought to do something for contemporaries, where the mind is alive to the influence of actions and the certainty of harvest coming after seedtime.