Post by Betty on Oct 5, 2005 6:53:27 GMT -5
Title: Through the Fire
Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Scripture References:
Job 42:12
Title: Through the Fire
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more
than his beginning" (Job 42:12).
Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He
was tried that his godliness might be confirmed.
Are not my troubles intended to deepen my
character and to robe me in graces I had little
of before? I come to my glory through eclipses,
tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the
roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with
higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of
himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee.
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near
in His majesty that I bend low before Him and
pray, "Thy will be done," I gain very much. God
gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those
wearisome days and nights, he penetrated within
the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer
liveth." Surely the latter end of Job was more
blessed than the beginning.--In the Hour of
Silence
"Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a
nugget of gold in her hand."
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be
the advantage of the right if we are only willing
to keep on working and to wait patiently. How
steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at
their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are
blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot
accept and endure suffering. There are joys that
can come to us only through sorrow. There are
revealings of Divine truth which we can get only
when earth's lights have gone out. There are
harvests which can grow only after the plowshare
has done its work.--Selected
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest
souls; the most massive characters are seamed
with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation
robes glittering with fire, and through their
tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of
Heaven. --Chapin
I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear.
Beat on, true heart, forever;
Shine bright, strong golden chain;
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!
--Adelaide Proctor
This classic devotional is the unabridged edition of
Streams in the Desert. This first edition was published
in 1925 and the wording is preserved as originally
written. Connotations of words may have changed over the
years and are not meant to be offensive.
Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Scripture References:
Job 42:12
Title: Through the Fire
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more
than his beginning" (Job 42:12).
Through his griefs Job came to his heritage. He
was tried that his godliness might be confirmed.
Are not my troubles intended to deepen my
character and to robe me in graces I had little
of before? I come to my glory through eclipses,
tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the
roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with
higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of
himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee.
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near
in His majesty that I bend low before Him and
pray, "Thy will be done," I gain very much. God
gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those
wearisome days and nights, he penetrated within
the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer
liveth." Surely the latter end of Job was more
blessed than the beginning.--In the Hour of
Silence
"Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a
nugget of gold in her hand."
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be
the advantage of the right if we are only willing
to keep on working and to wait patiently. How
steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at
their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are
blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot
accept and endure suffering. There are joys that
can come to us only through sorrow. There are
revealings of Divine truth which we can get only
when earth's lights have gone out. There are
harvests which can grow only after the plowshare
has done its work.--Selected
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest
souls; the most massive characters are seamed
with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation
robes glittering with fire, and through their
tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of
Heaven. --Chapin
I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear.
Beat on, true heart, forever;
Shine bright, strong golden chain;
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!
--Adelaide Proctor
This classic devotional is the unabridged edition of
Streams in the Desert. This first edition was published
in 1925 and the wording is preserved as originally
written. Connotations of words may have changed over the
years and are not meant to be offensive.
