Our society as a whole is busy rushing to and fro trying to find peace, joy, and fulfillment in all the things that will soon pass away. Mr. Stewart Hamlin wrote a song many years ago that answers our question about what real fulfillment in life is all about. Perhaps you remember, “It Is No Secret What God Can Do.” I think he pointed out very well that it would take God to make a home, happy children, a good marriage, a good community, a good country, and a better world. The trouble is, we try to have all that without God and it won’t work. Ralph Cushman wrote the following poem that also says it well:

I met God in the morning

When the day was at its best,

And His presence came like sunrise

With glory in my breast.

All day long His presence lingered,

All day long He stayed with me,

As we sailed in perfect calmness

O’er a very troubled sea.

Other ships were blown and battered,

Other ships were sore distressed,

But the winds that seemed to drive them,

Brought to us sweet peace and rest.

Then I thought of other mornings

With a keen remorse of mind,

When I, too, had loosed the mornings,

With His presence left behind.

So I think I know the secret

Learned from many a troubled way,

You must seek Him in the morning,

If you want Him through the day.