December 4
Light for the DaysI will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.—Isaiah 43:19.
IF God, in his providence, leads me into the wilderness of trial, am I content to follow his guidance, knowing that he is with me, and will make plain the way to the rest beyond? Do I feel that I shall wander if I do not look to him for direction; that I shall perish with hunger if I am not fed from on high; that my thirst can never be quenched but from the living waters that he causes to flow? Are all my steps guided by him?
No temporal blessing is too great to expect from a God whose love was so infinite as to give his own Son for the salvation of mankind.—SAURIN.
Every event of life has meaning to those, who, in the simple trust of a childlike faith, give themselves up to the leadings and guidance of God's providence. No wind can blow wrong; no event be mistimed; no result be disastrous. If in all things God is caring for our inward and eternal life, nothing can occur which is not for our good.
God doth not leave his own; The night of weeping for a time may last, Then, when all tears are past, His going forth shall as the morning shine, The sunrise of his favor shall be thine; He will not leave his own.