WHATEVER GOD WILLS IS THE BEST
In the early years around the turn of the century, a scientist worked on barometers, in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Part of his research was the routine task of recording the atmospheric pressure under different conditions of weather and temperature. The various readings were noted down on sheets of paper.
He had laboured on this research for over twenty years. A huge stock of his papers was on his table – twenty years of painstaking records which he had accumulated.
At about this time, his maid-servant of many years took a week’s holiday, leaving a substitute in her place.
On the very first day, the scientist went out for his usual evening walk. On his return, he found the familiar mass of old papers missing from his desk. In their places, were kept fresh, clean white sheets of paper.
He asked the new maid-servant, “Where are my papers which were kept on the desk?”
The maid-servant explained, “O, those old papers? I was cleaning your room, sir, and I found so many of those old, soiled and stained papers cluttering your table and gathering dust. I’ve thrown them into the fire and kept new clean sheets of paper for your use.”
Twenty years of labour and research confined to the flames! It was not enough to make the gentlest man angry! But not this man – for he had learned the lesson that there is always a meaning of mercy in everything happens.
He did not scold the maid-servant. All he said was, “Thy Will be done, Lord!”
How true it is that one of the easiest ways of controlling anger is to believe that whatever God wills for us is the very best, though it may appear to be the contrary.
In the early years around the turn of the century, a scientist worked on barometers, in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. Part of his research was the routine task of recording the atmospheric pressure under different conditions of weather and temperature. The various readings were noted down on sheets of paper.
He had laboured on this research for over twenty years. A huge stock of his papers was on his table – twenty years of painstaking records which he had accumulated.
At about this time, his maid-servant of many years took a week’s holiday, leaving a substitute in her place.
On the very first day, the scientist went out for his usual evening walk. On his return, he found the familiar mass of old papers missing from his desk. In their places, were kept fresh, clean white sheets of paper.
He asked the new maid-servant, “Where are my papers which were kept on the desk?”
The maid-servant explained, “O, those old papers? I was cleaning your room, sir, and I found so many of those old, soiled and stained papers cluttering your table and gathering dust. I’ve thrown them into the fire and kept new clean sheets of paper for your use.”
Twenty years of labour and research confined to the flames! It was not enough to make the gentlest man angry! But not this man – for he had learned the lesson that there is always a meaning of mercy in everything happens.
He did not scold the maid-servant. All he said was, “Thy Will be done, Lord!”
How true it is that one of the easiest ways of controlling anger is to believe that whatever God wills for us is the very best, though it may appear to be the contrary.
