Goingthrough

It’s a new level in my life.

In the hour of distress, you cannot Hear the answer to your prayers. How often has the answer seemed to come much later!

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!"-Psalm 46:10

The heart heard no reply during the moment of its crying, its thunder, its earthquake, and its fire. But once the crying stopped, once the stillness came, once your hand refrained from knocking on the iron gate, and once concern for other lives broke through the tragedy of your own life, the long-awaited reply appeared.

You must rest, O soul, to receive your heart's desire. Slow the beating of your heart over concerns for your personal care. Place the storm of your individual troubles on God's altar of everyday trials, and the same night, the Lord will appear to you. His rainbow will extend across the subsiding flood, and in your stillness you will hear the everlasting music.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them (John 10:4) 

This is intensely difficult work for Him and us-it is difficult for us to go, but equally difficult for Him to cause us pain. Yet it must be done. It would not be in our best interest to always remain in one happy and comfortable location. Therefore He moves forward. The shepherd leaves the fold so the sheep will move on to the vitalizing mountain slopes. In the same way, labourers must be driven out into the harvest, or else the golden grain would spoil.