LOOKING ON THE WRONG SIDE
Illustration★★★★Dr. G. F. Pentecost was once trying to comfort a woman who had passed through sore trials.
Failing in his efforts to cheer her and dispell her doubts, he took up some em- broidery upon which she had been working and said, “What a confusion of threads! Why waste time on a thing like that?” Turning the embroidery over, she said, “Now look at it. You were seeing it from the wrong side.”
“That’s it, exactly,” said Dr. Pentecost. “You are looking at your trials from the wrong side. Turn them over and look at them from the right side—that is, from God’s side.
The Lord is working out a design of His own for your life, and you must look at things from His point of view, and trust His workmanship.”—Edwin M. Kerlin a % ae
The point
Dr. Pentecost uses embroidery as a metaphor: life's trials look like confused threads from the wrong side, but from God's perspective they form a perfect design.