DAILY CONTEMPLATION

June 30, 2025 ~ Paone 23, 1741

If we understand not why anything is done, let us grant to His providence that it is not done without reason:
so shall we not be blasphemers.
For when we begin to argue concerning the works of God,
“Why is this?” “why is that?” and, “He ought not to have done this,” “He did this ill,”
where is the praise of God? You have lost your Halleluia.
Regard all things in such wise as to please God and praise the Creator.
For if you were to happen to enter the workshop of a smith,
you would not dare to find fault with his bellows, his anvils, his hammers.
But take an ignorant man, who knows not for what purpose each thing is, and he finds fault with all.
But if he have not the skill of the workman, and have but the reasoning power of a man,
what does he say to himself? “Not without reason are the bellows placed here;
the workman knows why, even though I know not.”
In the shop he dares not to find fault with the smith, yet in the universe he dares to find fault with God.
Therefore just as “fire, hail, snow, clouds, stormy wind, which do His word” (Ps 148:8),
so all things in nature, which seem to foolish persons to be made at random,
simply do His word, because they are not made save by His command.
St. Augustine