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by L B Cowman
Desperate Situations
"And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. . . . And
suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison
were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and every one's bands
were loosed" (Acts 16:25, 26).
This is God's way. In the darkest hours of the night, His tread draws near
across the billows. As the day of execution is breaking, the angel comes to
Peter's cell. When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the royal
sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the favored race.
Ah, soul, it may have to come to the worst with thee ere thou art delivered; but
thou wilt be delivered! God may keep thee waiting, but he will ever be mindful
of His covenant, and will appear to fulfill His inviolable Word. --F. B. Meyer
There's a simplicity about God in working out His plans, yet a resourcefulness
equal to any difficulty, and an unswerving faithfulness to His trusting child,
and an unforgetting steadiness in holding to His purpose. Through a
fellow-prisoner, then a dream, He lifts Joseph from a prison to a premiership.
And the length of stay in the prison prevents dizziness in the premier. It's
safe to trust God's methods and to go by His clock. --S. D. Gordon
Providence hath a thousand keys to open a thousand sundry doors for the
deliverance of His own, when it is even come to a desperate case. Let us be
faithful; and care for our own part which is to suffer for Him, and lay Christ's
part on Himself, and leave it there. --George MacDonald
Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle -- it is miracle in its first
stage. If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but
impossibility.
The clinging hand of His child makes a desperate situation a delight to Him.
"The angel of the Lord came upon him (Peter) and a
light shined in the prison; and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up,
saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off" (Acts 12:7).
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