Consider the thoughts of Our Lord. One of the uses of the material world, as we learn from Wisd. xiii. and Rom. I., is to instruct us about God and raise our thoughts to Him. Our Lord shows us how to read spiritual lessons in every natural event, and to use every object as an occasion for glorifying God. The seed-time and the harvest, the sparrows and the lilies, the weeds amongst the corn, a debtor imprisoned, the grafting of vines, the catching of fish, the tending of sheep - all these things He shows in a spiritual aspect.
