We Are All Like Crickets!

The cricket!
(A.B. Jack, "GOD'S Providence" 1879)

We are all very apt to believe in divine 
Providence when we get our own way; 
but when things go awry, we think 
that GOD is only in Heaven and 
not upon the earth.

The cricket, in the spring, builds 
his house in the meadow, and chirps 
for joy because all is going so well 
with him. But when he hears 
the sound of the plough a few 
furrows off, and the thunder 
of the oxen's tread--
then his sky begins to darken, 
and his young heart fails him! 

By-and-by the plough comes crunching 
along, turns his dwelling bottom-side up, 
and he goes rolling over and over, 
without a house and without a home! 

"Oh," he says, "the foundations 
of the world are breaking up, and 
everything is hastening to destruction!"

But the gardener, as he walks 
behind the plough--
does he think the foundations 
of the world are breaking up? No. 

He is thinking only of the harvest that 
is to follow in the wake of the plough; 
and the cricket, if it will but wait, will 
see the gardener's purpose.

We are all like crickets! 

When we get our own way, we are happy 
and contented. When we are subjected 
to disappointment, we despair and 
murmur against GOD and HIS providence.


"We must confide in the judgment of GOD, 
and distrust our own. We are short-sighted 
creatures, and easily imposed upon by 
appearances, and know not what is good 
for us in this vain life which we spend as 
a shadow. But GOD cannot be mistaken. 
A wise father will choose far better for 
his infant, than the infant can choose 
for himself." (William Jay)

  
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GraceGems  has published J.R. Miller's helpful short article, 
"Thread for a Web Begun!"