"He guided
them by the skillfulness of his hands" (Ps. 78:72). -
From Streams in the Desert
When you are doubtful as to your course, submit your judgment absolutely
to the Spirit of God, and ask Him to shut against you every door but the
right one…Meanwhile keep on as you are, and consider the absence of
indication to be the indication of God's will that you are on His
track…As you go down the long corridor, you will find that He has
preceded you, and locked many doors which you would fain have entered;
but be sure that beyond these there is one which He has left unlocked.
Open it and enter, and you will find yourself face to face with a bend
of the river of opportunity, broader and deeper than anything you had
dared to imagine in your sunniest dreams. Launch forth upon it; it
conducts to the open sea.
God guides us, often by circumstances. At one moment the way may seem
utterly blocked; and then shortly afterward some trivial incident
occurs, which might not seem much to others, but which to the keen eye
of faith speaks volumes. Sometimes these things are repeated in various
ways, in answer to prayer. They are not haphazard results of chance, but
the opening up of circumstances in the direction in which we would walk.
And they begin to multiply as we advance toward our goal, just as the
lights do as we near a populous town, when darting through the land by
night express. --F. B. Meyer
If you go to Him to be guided, He will guide you; but He will not
comfort your distrust or half-trust of Him by showing you the chart of
all His purposes concerning you. He will show you only into a way where,
if you go cheerfully and trustfully forward, He will show you on still
farther. --Horace Bushnell
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From Streams in the Desert
Daddy's Empty
Chair
A man's daughter had asked the local minister to come and pray with her
father.
When the minister
arrived, he found the man lying in bed with his head propped up on two
pillows. An empty chair sat beside his bed. The minister assumed
that the old fellow had been informed of his visit. "I guess you were
expecting me, he said.
'No, who are you?" said the father.
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