Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Apr 24, 2008 1:30:45 GMT -5
NOT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY
"Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian: and he led the flock
to the backside, of the desert,
and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord
appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush"
- (Exod. 3:1,2).
The vision came in the midst of common toil,
and that is where the Lord delights to give His revelations.
He seeks a man who is on the ordinary road,
and the Divine fire leaps out at his feet.
The mystic ladder can rise
from the market place to Heaven.
It can connect the realm of drudgery
with the realms of grace.
My Father God, help me to expect Thee
on the ordinary road.
I do not ask for sensational happenings.
Commune with me through ordinary work and duty.
Be my Companion when I take the common journey.
Let the humble life be transfigured by Thy presence.
Some Christians think they must be always up
to mounts of extraordinary joy and revelation;
this is not after God's method.
Those spiritual visits to high places,
and that wonderful intercourse with the unseen world,
are not in the promises;
the daily life of communion is.
And it is enough.
We shall have the exceptional
revelation if it be right for us.
There were but three disciples allowed
to see the transfiguration,
and those three entered the gloom of Gethsemane.
No one can stay on the mount of privilege.
There are duties in the valley.
Christ found His life-work, not in the glory,
but in the valley, and was there
truly and fully the Messiah.
The value of the vision and glory is
but their gift of fitness for work and endurance.
-Selected
© STREAMS IN THE DESERT
compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
"Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian: and he led the flock
to the backside, of the desert,
and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb.
And the angel of the Lord
appeared unto him in a flame of fire
out of the midst of a bush"
- (Exod. 3:1,2).
The vision came in the midst of common toil,
and that is where the Lord delights to give His revelations.
He seeks a man who is on the ordinary road,
and the Divine fire leaps out at his feet.
The mystic ladder can rise
from the market place to Heaven.
It can connect the realm of drudgery
with the realms of grace.
My Father God, help me to expect Thee
on the ordinary road.
I do not ask for sensational happenings.
Commune with me through ordinary work and duty.
Be my Companion when I take the common journey.
Let the humble life be transfigured by Thy presence.
Some Christians think they must be always up
to mounts of extraordinary joy and revelation;
this is not after God's method.
Those spiritual visits to high places,
and that wonderful intercourse with the unseen world,
are not in the promises;
the daily life of communion is.
And it is enough.
We shall have the exceptional
revelation if it be right for us.
There were but three disciples allowed
to see the transfiguration,
and those three entered the gloom of Gethsemane.
No one can stay on the mount of privilege.
There are duties in the valley.
Christ found His life-work, not in the glory,
but in the valley, and was there
truly and fully the Messiah.
The value of the vision and glory is
but their gift of fitness for work and endurance.
-Selected
© STREAMS IN THE DESERT
compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman