Everyman’s Hut

Camp News, Volume 2, Issue 83, 25 July 1941, Page 8

Everyman’s Hut

“We thank Thee, Lord, for weary days When desert streams were dry, And first we knew what depth of need Thy love could satisfy. “We thank Thee for the rest in Him The weary only know— The perfect wondrous sympathy We needs must learn below. “The touch that heals the broken heart Is never felt above; His angels know His blessedness His way-worn saints His love.” When we come to consider seriously the relationship between God and the world, we are confronted with one great fundamental truth — a truth - which runs right through the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, the wonderful truth that “where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.”

In the Garden where grew the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, which proved to be the downfall of man, there grew also the tree of life to give regeneration. As by one man’s disobedience sin came into the world, and death by sin, so by the obedience of One came life and righteousness. At Calvary, where the wickedness of man reached its climax in its outrage against the Son of God, the grace of God abounded abundantly above it, as we hear -Christ’s plea from the cross for His executioner: “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.” God’s cry to men has even been “Turn ye, turn ye, for why will ye die?” “God willeth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he may turn from his wickedness and live.”

And so we learn that though God abhors sin, yet His love and pity go out to the victims of sin, and all His

dealings with us are designed to draw us to Him in love. He wounds that we may know the power of His healing touch. He allows pain and weariness to be our lot that we may know His wondrous sympathy and the calm of resting in Him. The three Hebrew youths would never have known the presence of the Son of God with them in the furnace in delivering power had they not been cast into the fire. The Samaritan woman at Sychar’s well would never have known the joy