Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jan 21, 2007 4:44:06 GMT -5
Cast Down, But Not Destroyed
How did God bring about the miracle of the Red Sea?
By shutting His people in on every side
so that there was no way out but the divine way.
The Egyptians were behind them,
the sea was in front of them,
the mountains were on both sides of them.
There was no escape but from above.
Someone has said that the devil can wall us in,
but he cannot roof us over.
We can always get out at the top.
Our difficulties are but God's challenges,
and many times He makes them so hard
that we must get above them or go under.
In the Providence of God, such an hour
furnishes us with the highest possibilities for faith.
We are pushed by the very emergency into God's best.
Beloved, this is God's hour. If you will rise to meet it
you will get such a hold upon Him that you will never
be in extremities again; or if you are, you will learn
to call them not extremities, but opportunities.
Like Jacob, you will go forth from that night at Peniel,
no longer Jacob, but victorious Israel.
Let us bring to Him our need and prove Him true.
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net
How did God bring about the miracle of the Red Sea?
By shutting His people in on every side
so that there was no way out but the divine way.
The Egyptians were behind them,
the sea was in front of them,
the mountains were on both sides of them.
There was no escape but from above.
Someone has said that the devil can wall us in,
but he cannot roof us over.
We can always get out at the top.
Our difficulties are but God's challenges,
and many times He makes them so hard
that we must get above them or go under.
In the Providence of God, such an hour
furnishes us with the highest possibilities for faith.
We are pushed by the very emergency into God's best.
Beloved, this is God's hour. If you will rise to meet it
you will get such a hold upon Him that you will never
be in extremities again; or if you are, you will learn
to call them not extremities, but opportunities.
Like Jacob, you will go forth from that night at Peniel,
no longer Jacob, but victorious Israel.
Let us bring to Him our need and prove Him true.
A. B. SIMPSON
www.sermonindex.net