MEMORY VERSE: ‘And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?’ Exodus 4:11.
LESSON AIM: To study God’s plan for man.
‘When we view creation in the light of the cross, everything is even now glorified. Although there is a veil spread over all things, "the whole world is full of His glory," and the everlasting power and divinity of the Creator may be seen in everything that He has made. The glory of God may be seen in every wayside plant as truly as at Cana of Galilee or at the grave of Lazarus. In everything and in every person we may see the same miraculous life working, and find cause to praise the wonderful works of God.’ E. J. Waggoner: The Medical Missionary, May, 1904.
1. As well as the human mouth, what else was designed by God? Proverbs 20:12. Consider Psalm 139:13-16.
NOTE: ‘God gave men eyes, that they might behold wondrous things out of His law. He gave them the hearing ear, that they might listen to His message, spoken by the living preacher. He gave men the talent of speech, that they might present Christ as the sin-pardoning Saviour. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.’ The Adventist Home, page 401.
2. When do we become of value to God? Jeremiah 1:5; Psalm 22:9-10.
NOTE: ‘If one will examine through a microscope the movements and growth of the unorganised cell, which, being but a tiny homogeneous mass, with no organs of any kind, yet carries on all the essential operations of nature that are common to the highest animals and even man, some idea may be gained of how God possesses one before birth. We see God at work, as it were; for we know that the tiny bit of protoplasm has no power in itself to work. We cannot deceive ourselves about it, as we do about ourselves. Even so the unborn child has absolutely no power or will; it is formed by the working of God in it; it is completely possessed by God. Now just what God does for the unborn child, without its knowledge or consent, He should be allowed to do for the fully formed child or man, with his full knowledge and consent. As the unborn child, with its unperfect members, involuntarily yields to the Lord’s working, so the man, with his complete members, ought voluntarily to yield: “Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal bodies, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof. Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin; but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.” Romans 6:12, 13. Here is complete possession by the Lord.’ E. J. Waggoner: Present Truth, October 18, 1900.