Post by MIRIAM JACOB on Jul 11, 2008 7:21:12 GMT -5
In God, Not Out of Trouble
"Are you seeking great things for yourself?
Don't do it! I will bring great disaster upon all these people;
but I will give you your life as a reward wherever you go.
I, the Lord, have spoken!"
- (Jeremiah. 45:5).
A promise given for hard places,
and a promise of safety and life
in the midst of tremendous pressure,
a life "for a prey."
It may well adjust itself to our own times,
which are growing harder as we near the end
of the age, and the Tribulation times.
What is the meaning of "a life for a prey"?
It means a life snatched out of the jaws of the destroyer,
as David snatched the lamb from the lion.
It means not removal from the noise of the battle
and the presence of our foes; but it means a table
in the midst of our enemies, a shelter from the storm,
a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face
of continual pressure:
Paul's healing when pressed out of measure
so that he despaired of life;
Paul's Divine help when the thorn remained,
but the power of Christ rested upon him
and the grace of Christ was sufficient.
Lord, give me my life for a prey,
and in the hardest places
help me today to be victorious. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
We often pray to be delivered from calamities;
we even trust that we shall be;
but we do not pray to be made what we should be,
in the very presence of the calamities;
to live amid them, as long as they last,
in the consciousness that we are,
held and sheltered by the Lord,
and can therefore remain in the midst of them,
so long as they continue, without any hurt.
For forty days and nights, the Saviour was kept
in the presence of Satan in the wilderness, and that,
under circumstances of special trial,
His human nature being weakened
by want of food and rest.
The furnace was heated seven times more
than it was wont to be heated,
but the three Hebrew children
were kept a season amid its flames
as calm and composed in the presence
of the tyrant's last appliances of torture,
as they were in the presence of himself
before their time of deliverance came.
And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions,
and when he was taken up out of the den,
"no manner of hurt was found upon him,
because he believed in his God."
They dwelt in the presence of the enemy,
because they dwelt in the presence of God.
STREAMS IN THE DESERT
compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
"Are you seeking great things for yourself?
Don't do it! I will bring great disaster upon all these people;
but I will give you your life as a reward wherever you go.
I, the Lord, have spoken!"
- (Jeremiah. 45:5).
A promise given for hard places,
and a promise of safety and life
in the midst of tremendous pressure,
a life "for a prey."
It may well adjust itself to our own times,
which are growing harder as we near the end
of the age, and the Tribulation times.
What is the meaning of "a life for a prey"?
It means a life snatched out of the jaws of the destroyer,
as David snatched the lamb from the lion.
It means not removal from the noise of the battle
and the presence of our foes; but it means a table
in the midst of our enemies, a shelter from the storm,
a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face
of continual pressure:
Paul's healing when pressed out of measure
so that he despaired of life;
Paul's Divine help when the thorn remained,
but the power of Christ rested upon him
and the grace of Christ was sufficient.
Lord, give me my life for a prey,
and in the hardest places
help me today to be victorious. --Days of Heaven upon Earth
We often pray to be delivered from calamities;
we even trust that we shall be;
but we do not pray to be made what we should be,
in the very presence of the calamities;
to live amid them, as long as they last,
in the consciousness that we are,
held and sheltered by the Lord,
and can therefore remain in the midst of them,
so long as they continue, without any hurt.
For forty days and nights, the Saviour was kept
in the presence of Satan in the wilderness, and that,
under circumstances of special trial,
His human nature being weakened
by want of food and rest.
The furnace was heated seven times more
than it was wont to be heated,
but the three Hebrew children
were kept a season amid its flames
as calm and composed in the presence
of the tyrant's last appliances of torture,
as they were in the presence of himself
before their time of deliverance came.
And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions,
and when he was taken up out of the den,
"no manner of hurt was found upon him,
because he believed in his God."
They dwelt in the presence of the enemy,
because they dwelt in the presence of God.
STREAMS IN THE DESERT
compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman