When the soul is anchored to the will of God and His exceeding great and precious promises,
with the calm unwavering confidence that His power and love are behind us
and never fail us until all His will for us is accomplished,
our life must be victorious.
In the center of the whirlpool,
while the water rushed around,
there’s a space of perfect stillness,
though with turmoil it is bound:
All is calm, and all is quiet,
scarcely e’en a sense of sound.
So with us – despite the conflict –
when in Christ His Peace is found.
-Springs In The Valley
Commit thy way unto the Lord,
trust also in Him;
and He shall bring it to pass.
Psalm 37:5
Roll upon Jehovah thy way;
trust upon Him:
and He worketh.
Young Translation
“He worketh.”
When?
Now.
We are so in danger of postponing our expectation of His acceptance of the trust,
and His undertaking to accomplish what we ask Him to do,
instead of saying as we commit. “He worketh.”
He worketh even now;
and praise Him that it is so.
The very expectancy enables the Holy Spirit to do the very thing we have rolled upon Him.
It is out of our reach.
We are not trying to do it anymore.
“HE WORKETH!”
-Streams In The Desert
God is not concerned about our plans;
He does not say – Do you want to go through this bereavement; this upset?
He allows these things for His own purpose.
The things we are going through are either making us sweeter, better, nobler men and women;
or they are making us more captious and fault-finding, more insistent upon our own way.
The things that happen either makes us fiends or they make us saints;
it depends entirely upon the relationship we are in to God.
If we say – “Thy will be done,”
we get the consolation of John 17,
the consolation of knowing that our Father is working according to His own wisdom.
When we understand what God is after we will not get mean and cynical.
Jesus has prayed nothing less for us
than absolute oneness with Himself
as He was one with the Father.
Some of us are far off it,
and yet God will not leave us alone until we are one with Him,
because Jesus has prayed that we might be.
-Oswald Chambers
My Utmost For His Highest
Thank You God, for this new day.
Thank You for these devotional readings that point me to You.
Every morning You give me something that reminds me that I am not alone.
You are with me every step of this journey.
Yes, there are difficult moments.
The tears fall.
I shout at the world.
I shout at him.
WHY?
Then I come back to the heart of it all.
YOU ARE WITH ME.
Nothing touches me that doesn’t go through You first.
You have allowed this for Your purpose.
I don’t begin to understand this,
but I trust that You are working out Your plan for my life.
HE WORKETH!
And so I will praise!
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