God's Business
Henry Drummond
January 1, 1996
Henry Drummond (1851 -1897) was a Scottish evangelical theologian and biologist who for much of his career taught natural science at the Free Church College, Glasgow. He attempted to reconcile Christianity and Darwinism in such works as Natural Law of the Spiritual World (1883) and The Ascent or Man (1894). This piece is from The Programme of Christianity (1882).
What does God do all day?" once asked a little boy. One could wish that more grown-up people asked so very real a question. Unfortunately, most of us are not even boys in religious intelligence, but only very unthinking babes. It no more occurs to us that God is engaged in any particular work in the world than it occurs to a little child that its father does anything except be its father. Its father may be a cabinet minister absorbed in the nation's work or an inventor deep in the schemes for the world's good; but to this master egoist he is father and nothing more. Childhood, whether in the physical or moral world, is the great self-centered period of life; and a personal God who satisfies personal ends is all that for a long time many a Christian understands.
But as clearly as there comes to the growing child a knowledge of his father's part in the world, and a sense of what real life means, there must come to every Christian, whose growth is true, some richer sense of the meaning of Christianity and a larger view of Christ's purpose for mankind. To miss this is to miss the whole splendour and glory of Christ's religion.
Next to losing a sense of a personal Christ, the worst that can befall a Christian is to have no sense of anything else. To grow up in complacent belief that God has no business in this great groaning world of human beings but to attend to a few ...
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