Post by Betty on May 18, 2006 2:08:16 GMT -5
Title: Above the Clouds
"Men see not the bright light which is in the
clouds" (Job 37:21).
The world owes much of its beauty to cloudland.
The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly
compensates for the changefulness and glory of
the clouds. Earth would become a wilderness apart
from their ministry. There are clouds in human
life, shadowing, refreshing, and sometimes
draping it in blackness of night; but there is
never a cloud without its bright light. "I do set
my bow in the cloud!"
If we could see the clouds from the other side
where they lie in billowy glory, bathed in the
light they intercept, like heaped ranges of Alps,
we should be amazed at their splendid
magnificence.
We look at their under side; but who shall
describe the bright light that bathes their
summits and searches their valleys and is
reflected from every pinnacle of their expanse?
Is not every drop drinking in health-giving
qualities, which it will carry to the earth?
O child of God! If you could see your sorrows and
troubles from the other side; if instead of
looking up at them from earth, you would look
down on them from the heavenly places where you
sit with Christ; if you knew how they are
reflecting in prismatic beauty before the gaze of
Heaven, the bright light of Christ's face, you
would be content that they should cast their deep
shadows over the mountain slopes of existence.
Only remember that clouds are always moving and
passing before God's cleansing wind. --Selected
"I cannot know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath;
But this I know--God watches all my path,
And I can trust.
"I may not draw aside the mystic veil
That hides the unknown future from my sight,
Nor know if for me waits the dark or light;
But I can trust.
"I have no power to look across the tide,
To see while here the land beyond the river;
But this I , know--I shall be Gods forever;
So I can trust."
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.
"Men see not the bright light which is in the
clouds" (Job 37:21).
The world owes much of its beauty to cloudland.
The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly
compensates for the changefulness and glory of
the clouds. Earth would become a wilderness apart
from their ministry. There are clouds in human
life, shadowing, refreshing, and sometimes
draping it in blackness of night; but there is
never a cloud without its bright light. "I do set
my bow in the cloud!"
If we could see the clouds from the other side
where they lie in billowy glory, bathed in the
light they intercept, like heaped ranges of Alps,
we should be amazed at their splendid
magnificence.
We look at their under side; but who shall
describe the bright light that bathes their
summits and searches their valleys and is
reflected from every pinnacle of their expanse?
Is not every drop drinking in health-giving
qualities, which it will carry to the earth?
O child of God! If you could see your sorrows and
troubles from the other side; if instead of
looking up at them from earth, you would look
down on them from the heavenly places where you
sit with Christ; if you knew how they are
reflecting in prismatic beauty before the gaze of
Heaven, the bright light of Christ's face, you
would be content that they should cast their deep
shadows over the mountain slopes of existence.
Only remember that clouds are always moving and
passing before God's cleansing wind. --Selected
"I cannot know why suddenly the storm
Should rage so fiercely round me in its wrath;
But this I know--God watches all my path,
And I can trust.
"I may not draw aside the mystic veil
That hides the unknown future from my sight,
Nor know if for me waits the dark or light;
But I can trust.
"I have no power to look across the tide,
To see while here the land beyond the river;
But this I , know--I shall be Gods forever;
So I can trust."
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.
