Working joyfully in the fields of God's choosing.
It should be the care of a Christian to observe what are God's ways towards him:
What is God about to do with me at this time? Is God about to raise me, to comfort me? Let me accept God's goodness, and bless his name; let me join with the work of God, when he offers mercy to me, to take the mercy he offers.
But again, is God about to humble me? Is God about to break my heart, and to bring my heart down to him? Let me join with God in this work of his: this is how a Christian should walk with God.
It is said that Enoch and Noah walked with God--walked with God, what is that? It is, To observe what work God is now about, and to join with God in that work of his; so that, according as God turns this way or that way, the heart should turn with God, and have workings suitable to the workings of God towards him.
3 comments:
I keep coming back to this photograph, it is wearing well on me. Any idea where it is taken? The woman is carrying what appears to be the traditional tea plucker's basket, although she is wearing it a bit differently than I've seen before. From the dress, I'd guess she is somewhere in India or Indonesia.... I'd be interested in learning more.
Mr. Jesch,
I'm glad you enjoyed the photograph. It was a genuine Google Images photo. Looks like the original photograph was from Vietnam. I thought it was a striking photo too, and encapsulated part of what I was trying to communicate from Burrough's quote.
Resting in His joy,
Rebecca
Wow, thanks for the link to the original image. The caption indicates she is "in Yunnan province, outside Hanoi". Yunnan is in southern China, and home to a very wonderful and distinctive ancient style of tea (which I carry). It is one of the regions where those tea pluckers' baskets are used (I got one from one of my importers, sort of a curiosity). I do not know much about the style of dress in the Yunnan province of China, but the dress, as I mentioned, certainly has the look common in parts of India and Indonesia, also very near VietNam. I find it immensely interesting how different cultures borrow and adapt specific things and styles, and here is a classic example of exactly that. Truly there is nothing new under the sun, though a given thing from there may be "new" here. You are exactly right, this image does work well with the Burroughs piece. Good work there.....
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