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There is a pleasant legend of Michael Angelo. He was engaged on a painting, but grew weary and discouraged while his work was yet incomplete, and fell asleep. Then while he slept an angel came, and seizing the brush that had dropped from the tired artist’s fingers, finished the picture. Angelo awoke at length, affrighted that he had slept, and foregone his task in self indulgence, but, looking at his canvas, his heart was thrilled with joy, and his soul uplifted beyond measure, for he saw that while he had slept his picture had been finished, and that it had been
“Painted fairer
Far than any picture of his making
In the past, with tint and touch diviner
And a light of God above it breaking.”
So it is with all who truly long and strive after the heavenly likeness. Faint and discouraged, they think they are making no progress, no growth toward the divine image, but in the very time of their faintness and disheartenment, “when human hands are weary folded, “ God’s Spirit comes and silently fashions the beauty in their souls. When they awake they shall see the work finished, and shall be satisfied in Christ’s likeness. There is great comfort in this for many of the Father’s weary children who earnestly long to become like the Master.