The life of Jesus was well occupied, yet there is an air of leisure about it, which came of the absence of all worry and nervous tension and undue haste and flustration. His was a laborious life, but full of rest and peace throughout. He had but one thing to do at a time, and time in which to do it, and to the one thing, whatever it was, whether great or small, he gave his whole power and thought. His Father bore for him the burden of the yesterday and the tomorrow. His Father mapped out his course for him and every day he simply sought and did his Father's will [168] for that day. His actions and work seem to human eyes to have been rather unsystematic and haphazard; but they were perfectly regulated by the will of God, and directed by that Wisdom which to men appears foolishness, because it is so far beyond them. No one would have expected that quiet, modest, life, with only three years' public ministry, without even a complete record of the words and deeds of those, to have caused such an overturn of human affairs. But it was a life laid out and worked out on God's lines, and that means the greatest power, the highest possible efficiency. Any humble life can be filled with power and made fruitful in this way.

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