| The Golden Gate of Prayer |
Chapter 9 |
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Still, it is always the right way in which this holy will leads us, the way, too, to blessedness. The time is not lost which seems lost to us. Some day we shall know that many of the best things in our life have been wrought for us or by us in the very seasons when, as it seemed to us, we had been interrupted in our usefulness, and were being kept from doing God’s will. We shall find, too, that when we thought nothing was being done either for us or by us, the fruits of the Spirit were really coming to their best sweetness and ripeness in our life.
“In every life
There’s a pause that is better than onward rush,
Better that hewing of mightiest doing;
‘Tis the standing still at souvereign will.
There’s a hush that is better than ardent speech,
Better that sighing or wilderness crying;
‘Tis the being still at sovereign will.
The pause and the hush sing a double song,
In unison low and for all time long.
O human soul, God’s working plan
Goes on, nor heeds the aid of man!
Stand still, and see!
Be still, and know!”
One of the most wonderful words in the Bible tells us that Jesus was made perfect through suffering. Even in his sinless human nature there were qualities whose beauty could be brought out in full perfection only in pain. How much more true is it of our sinful nature that only in furnace fires can it be perfected!
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