We need not suppose that God is not as much mixed up in the affairs of men today as he was in the days of Abraham, Moses, David and Daniel. He is as near as he ever was. But in those days he gave a revelation of his workings. "He made known his ways unto Moses, his doings unto the children of Israel." (Ps. 103:7). And such a revelation was needed. God works, unseen by human eye, untraced by human reason; so quietly and unobtrusively that he might have shaped the whole history of Israel, or the world, and no man would have even guessed that his hand was at all in it. He is a God that hideth himself (Isa. 45:15). But he revealed his presence and his doings to Israel. Often we are surprised when in connection with some seemingly quite natural event the Scripture says, "It was of Jehovah." At every turn, for good or ill, Jehovah's hand is revealed. But that record was not made to show us what God once did long ago, but to assure us that the same God, though unrevealed, works with the same power and interest among us now. The category of the men of faith is not exhausted in the eleventh chapter of Hebrews; God has his heroes now that rank with those. His proverbial [149] dealings did not end with Israel's sojourn in the wilderness or with the days of Elijah. If you think so, you have missed the very purpose of the inspired record. He is still molding and directing human affairs--hardening here, granting favor there; saving here, judging and avenging there. Only we can not see it now, for he does not reveal his every step. What he revealed then is enough; and from that we may in a general way know what he is doing now. And of this we can be sure, that without our Father not a sparrow falls to the ground, and the very hairs of our head are numbered.

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