Resting My Heart in God's Judgement

I cannot judge myself by myself or by anyone else, 

• there is always one fact more in everyone’s life that I do not know. 
• I cannot put people into types, 
• I am never at the balance of one another’s heredity; 
• therefore the judgement cannot lie with me. 

God’s judgement is right and true 

• and I can rest my heart there. 
• It is a great thing to notice the things I cannot answer just now, 
• and to waive my judgement about them. 

Because I cannot explain a thing, 

• I cannot say there is nothing in it. 
• There are dark and mysterious and perplexing things in life, 
• but the prevailing authority at the back of all is a righteous authority, 
• and I do not need to be unduly concerned. 

When I do find out the judgement of God, 

• I shall be absolutely satisfied with it to the last degree, 
• I won’t have another word to say—
• “that You might be justified when You speak, and be clear when You judge.”

In the meantime 

• God has something from which to clear His character when I see Him—
• “and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.” 

There is no problem, no personal grief, no agony or distress 

• (and God knows there are some fathomless agonies just now—
• awful injustices and wrongs and evils and nobility all mixed up together) 
• but will have an overwhelming explanation one day. 

If I will hang in to the fact 

• that God is true and loving and just, 
• every judgement He passes 
• will find me in agreement with it finally.
• I will say that God was perfectly right in all He allowed.

I said to myself, 

• “In due season God will judge everyone, 
• both good and bad, 
• for all their deeds.”
• Ecclesiastes 3:17

Adapted Excerpt From

Shade of His Hand

Oswald Chambers