Rev. Richard Pacini in a sermon reported in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Ohio

There is a spiritual law of the harvest—what we sow today we reap tomorrow. And we have no right to expect a harvest on some tomorrow that is not in keeping with what we sow.

But this is a day when everyone wants to be a harvester. It is a day when everyone wants to sit around and reap the benefits of spiritual poise, peace of mind, and durability of character. But these are only the rewards that come to those who spend some time in planting.

Religion must have a day-to-day content. It is a thing of little hours —not a matter of just waiting for the big hour to strike.

Peter J. Steincrohn, M. D., F.A.C.P. in his column "A Doctor Looks at Life" in the Miami Daily News, Florida

I have lately become more convinced that mind has a distinct effect upon the well-being—or otherwise—of the body. Psychosomatic medicine is only one indication that we doctors are waking up to the importance of the by-effects of mind and emotion on the physical body. ... The wise physician never "laughs off" any manifestation of faith.

From an editorial in the Marion Chronicle-Tribune Indiana

There is one short chapter in the Bible that has been more of a comfort to people than perhaps any other bit of literature ever written. We refer to the twenty-third Psalm. The precious words of this Psalm have sunk into an untold multitude of hearts and carried with them "the peace of God, which passeth all understanding." ... The Psalms ... deserve to be read much more than they are. They contain a wealth of comfort, and they are a wellspring of joy to all who read and meditate upon the expression found in them of the experience of their writers of the goodness and mercy of [God].

The New Testament is rich in its words of comfort. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." is a message from the lips of Jesus. ... The Apostle Paul passed through more trials and vicissitudes than almost any human being. He says to us, "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."

The person who diligently reads the sacred Scriptures, like the man who diligently searches the earth, will find hidden ... messages of comfort worth more than refined gold.

Rev. Stanley Andrews, M.A. in a sermon published in The Christian World London, England

"I being in the way, the Lord led me" (Gen. 24:27).

"In the way. ... "Not, mark you, in the church, or on my knees, or in some quiet place apart, but in the way; where people are; ... where there is noise and ceaseless activity. "I being in the way, the Lord led me. ... "Here is a man who encountered God and received divine guidance in a situation that seemed to have nothing "religious" about it. He was on the open highway, minding his own business, and just there he discovered that God was present, involved in the life situation in which he found himself at that moment, and the light of God was shining for him when he needed it.

The important truth in this story ... is this: God is not known apart from life. How do we know God? Where do we see Him at work? How and where does His Word reach us? It is usual to say: Come to church; undertake some religious discipline; withdraw from life; be still; be alone. But that is only part of the answer. To be satisfied with that is to give the impression that there is a cleavage running through life, that a great gulf is fixed between God and His world; that religion and the whole range of so-called "secular" activity are things apart.

And according to the Bible it is not so. The truth which we see in our Old Testament story ... runs like a theme through the whole Bible. There are many variations upon it but the theme is the same: God ... makes known His will to man in the day-by-day events of his own personal world and in the historical circumstances of his time. God is involved in the whole of life, not simply in that part of it that has to do with Church and religious disciplines.

In the events of each day, great or small, personal, domestic, national, and international, we may see something of the pattern He is weaving. ... Our business is to discern the signs of the times; to pause before this series of events or that set of circumstances and ask: "What is God saying to His world? What is His will? What pattern of life is He weaving?"

God is not known apart from life. Being in the way—being involved in the world, ... wrestling with the needs and problems of your own time, ever listening for God's Word to you and to His world in all the events around you being thus in the way, you too will be led. You will encounter the God of your life and know His will.