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“He led them forth by the right way.” — Psalm 107:7
Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide Thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; to-day my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the landscape o’er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; to-day, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God’s plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven?…
Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of
your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these
things are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the great
inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the
testing and strengthening of your faith — they are waves that wash you
further upon the rock — they are winds which waft your ship the more
swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David’s words, so it
might be said of you, “so He bringeth them to their desired haven.” By
honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and
by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all
these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are
you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are
out of God’s plan; they are necessary parts of it. “We must, through much
tribulation, enter the kingdom.” Learn, then, even to “count it all joy when
ye fall into divers temptations.”
“O let my trembling soul be still,
And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!
I cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
Yet all is well since ruled by Thee.”
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“He led them forth by the right way.” — Psalm 107:7
Changeful experience often leads the anxious believer to enquire “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide Thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clear; to-day my evidences are bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the landscape o’er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; to-day, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God’s plan with me? Can this be the way in which God would bring me to heaven?…
Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of
your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these
things are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the great
inheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for the
testing and strengthening of your faith — they are waves that wash you
further upon the rock — they are winds which waft your ship the more
swiftly towards the desired haven. According to David’s words, so it
might be said of you, “so He bringeth them to their desired haven.” By
honour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty and
by poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by all
these things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these are
you helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows are
out of God’s plan; they are necessary parts of it. “We must, through much
tribulation, enter the kingdom.” Learn, then, even to “count it all joy when
ye fall into divers temptations.”
“O let my trembling soul be still,
And wait Thy wise, Thy holy will!
I cannot, Lord, Thy purpose see,
Yet all is well since ruled by Thee.”
To make sure you never miss an episode, please subscribe today wherever you listen to podcasts.
Producer: Todd Adkins
Voice Artist: Ian Cullen
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