Take the old-fashioned way of erecting a scaffolding and building the structure inside. The scaffolding may be so skilfully erected and admirably proportioned and be there for so long that we come to consider this the scheme in the mind of the architect. Then one day we see the loosening of ropes and planks and ladders, and the turmoil destroys for ever the skill and beautiful proportion of the scaffolding; all that is happening is but to clear the real building that it may stand nobly before all as a thing of beauty... There have been prophets and students who handle the Bible like a childs box of bricks; they explain to us the design and structure and purpose; but as time goes on things do not work out in their way at all. They have mistaken the scaffolding for the structure, while all the time God is working out His purpose with a great and undeterred patience. --Oswald Chambers, in Christian Disciplines from The Quotable Oswald Chambers. Dada Bamise Samuel
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