Isa 58:14 Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.
Those
who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules
they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it.
The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that?
They learned it from the birds.
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it
goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around
and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away
towards the very sun.
Sufferings are GOD'S winds, His
contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds.
They are GOD'S hurricanes,
but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward GOD'S
heavens.
You have seen in the summer time a day when
the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe?
But a
cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and
threw out rich blessing for the world.
The storm rose, lightning flashed
and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was
cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed.
Human
life is worked out according to exactly the same principle.
When the
storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life;
and a part of heaven is brought down to earth.
~Selected~
Obstacles
ought to set us singing.
The wind finds voice, not when rushing across
the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine
trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp.
Then it has
songs of power and beauty.
Set your freed soul sweeping across the
obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny
hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing
voice.
~Selected~
Be like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight. And feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings.
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