| God knows just when to withhold from us any visible sign of encouragement, and when to grant us such a sign. How good it is that we may trust Him anyway! When all visible evidences that He is remembering us are withheld, that is best;He wants us to realize that His Word, His promise of remembrance, is more substantial and dependable than any evidence of our senses. When He sends the visible evidence, that is well also; we appreciate it all the more after we have trusted Him without it. Those who are readiest to trust God without other evidence than His Word always receive the greatest number of visible evidences of His love. Delays are not refusals; many a prayer is registered, and underneath it the words: "My time is not yet come." God has a set time as well as a set purpose, and He who orders the bounds of our habitation orders also the time of our deliverance. |
| A great deal is said in the Bible about waiting for God. The lesson cannot be too strongly enforced. We easily grow impatient of God's delays. Much of our trouble in life comes out of our restless, sometimes reckless, haste. We cannot wait for the fruit to ripen, but insist on plucking it while it is green. We cannot wait for the answers to our prayers, although the things we ask for may require long years in their preparation for us. We are exhorted to walk with God; but ofttimes God walks very slowly. But there is another phase of the lesson. God often waits for us. |
| BE ALL AT REST, MY SOUL, O BLESSED SECRET, OF THE TRUE LIFE THAT GLORIFIES THE LORD: NOT ALWAYS DOSE THE BUSIEST SOUL BEST SERVE HIM,BUT HE THAT RESTETH ON HIS FAITHFUL WORD. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE RIPPLED,FOR TINY WAVELETS MAR THE IMAGE FAIR, WHICH THE STILL POOL REFLECTS OF HEAVEN'S GLORY AND THEN THE IMAGE HE WOULD HAVE THE BEAR. , FOR REST IS SERVICE,TO THE STILL HEART GOD DOTH HIS SECRETS TELL: THEN SHALT YOU LEARN TO WAIT, AND WATCH, AND LABOR STRENGTHENED TO BEAR, SINCE CHRIST IN YOU DOTH DWELL.FOR WHAT IS SERVICE BUT THE LIFE OF JESUS, LIVED THROUGH A VESSEL OF EARTH'S FRAGILE CLAY, LOVING AND GIVING AND POURED FORTH FOR OTHERS, A LIVING SACRIFICE FROM DAY TO DAY. TO THOSE WHO QUESTION, "WHO IS GOD AND WHERE?" FOR GOD IS REST, AND WHERE HE DWELLS IS STILLNESS, AND THEY WHO DWELL IN HIM, HIS REST SHALL SHARE. AND WHAT SHALL MEET THE DEEP UNREST AROUND YOU, BUT THE CALM PEACE OF GOD THAT FILLED HIS BREAST? FOR STILL A LIVING VOICE CALLS TO THE WEARY, FROM HIM WHO SAID, "COME UNTO ME AND REST." |
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