Through the Floods

This morning’s meditation for Sally’s healing comes from Streams in the Desert by L. B. Cowman. This book of devotions was written in 1925.

He turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on foot;

there did we rejoice in him. Psalm 66:6

It is a striking assertion, “though the floods” (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror, anguish and dismay), “there,” says the psalmist, “did we rejoice in him!”

How many there are who can endorse this as their experience: that “there,” in their very seasons of distress and sadness, they have been enabled, as they never did before, to triumph and rejoice.

How near their God in covenant is brought! How brightly shine His promises! In the day of our prosperity, we cannot see the brilliancy of these. Like the sun at noon, hiding out the stars from sight, they are indiscernible; but when night overtakes, the deep, dark night of sorrow, out come these clustering stars—blessed constellations of Bible hope and promise of consolation.

Like Jacob at Jabbok, it is when our earthy sun goes down that the Divine Angel comes forth, and we wrestle with Him and prevail.

It was a night, “in the evening,” Aaron lit the sanctuary lamps. It is in the night of trouble the brightest lamps of the believer are often kindled.

It was in this loneliness and exile John had the glorious vision of his Redeemer. There is many a Patmos still in the world, whose brightest remembrances are those of God’s presence and upholding grace and love in solitude and sadness.

How many pilgrims, still passing through these Red Seas and Jordans of earthly affliction, will be enabled in the retrospect of eternity to say—full of the memories of God’s great goodness—“We went through the flood on foot, there—there, in these dark experiences with the surging waves on every side, deep calling to deep, Jordan, as when Israel crossed it, in “the time of the overflowing’ (flood), yet, ‘there did we rejoice in Him!’” Dr. MacDuff

And I will give her her vineyards from thence and the valley of Achor for a door of hope; and she shall sing THERE. Hosea 2:15

Music for Meditation

No More Night

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