THE LORD LOVES THEM ALL

Three women were praying. As they knelt the Master drew near to them. As He approached the first woman, He bent over her in tenderness and grace, with a smile full of radiant love and spoke to her ever so sweetly. Leaving her, He came to the next one and just placed His hand lightly upon her bowed head and gave her one look of loving approval. The third woman He passed almost abruptly without stopping for a word or glance. Now, you may wonder why each woman received a different 'treatment' from their master.

The Lord explains:"The first kneeling woman needs all the weight of My tenderness and care to keep her feet in My narrow way. She needs My love, thought and help every moment of the day. Without it she would fail and fall. The second has stronger faith and deeper love, and I can trust her to trust Me however things may go and whatever people do. The third, whom I seemed not to notice, and even to neglect, has faith and love of the finest quality and her, I am training by quick and drastic processes for the highest and holiest service. She knows Me so intimately, and trusts Me so utterly, that she is independent of words or looks or any outward intimation of My approval. She is not dismayed nor discouraged by any circumstance through which I arrange that she shall pass; she trusts Me when sense and reason and every finer instinct of the natural heart would rebel; - because she knows that I am working in her for eternity, and that what I do, though she knows not the explanation now, she shall understand hereafter. (Zephaniah 3:17)