“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 ofyour faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all thesethings are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the greatinheritance upon which you shall soon enter. These trials are for thetesting and strengthening of your faith — they are waves that wash youfurther upon the rock — they are winds which waft your ship the moreswiftly towards the desired haven. According to David’s words, so itmight be said of you, “so He bringeth them to their desired haven.” Byhonour and dishonour, by evil report and by good report, by plenty andby poverty, by joy and by distress, by persecution and by peace, by allthese things is the life of your souls maintained, and by each of these areyou helped on your way. Oh, think not, believer, that your sorrows areout of God’s plan; they are necessary parts of it. “We must, through muchtribulation, enter the kingdom.” Learn, then, even to “count it all joy whenye 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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