Day 5 - Thursday | Daily Devotions | Morning and Evening: Daily Reading | Connect the Testament | My Utmost for His Highest | Thoughts for the Quiet Hour |
Morning, May 22 Go To Evening Reading “He led them forth by the right way.” —Psalm 107:7 Challenging experiences often lead the anxious believer to inquire, “Why is it thus with me?” I looked for light, but lo, darkness came; for peace, but behold trouble. I said in my heart, my mountain standeth firm, I shall never be moved. Lord, thou dost hide thy face, and I am troubled. It was but yesterday that I could read my title clearly; today, my evidence is bedimmed, and my hopes are clouded. Yesterday I could climb to Pisgah’s top, and view the landscape o’er, and rejoice with confidence in my future inheritance; today, my spirit has no hopes, but many fears; no joys, but much distress. Is this part of God’s plan with me? Can this be how God would bring me to heaven? Yes, it is even so. The eclipse of your faith, the darkness of your mind, the fainting of your hope, all these things are but parts of God’s method of making you ripe for the great inheritance upon which you shall...