The Journey Home To Abba

This Devotion By Charles HSpurgeon Sums Up The Inspirational And Poetic Journey That Brought Me Home To Abba Father'he Led Them Forth By The Right Way.' ?psalm : Changeful Experience Often Leads The Anxious Believer To Enquire 'why Is It Thus With Me?' ILooked For Light, But Lo, Darkness Came, For Peace, But Behold TroubleISaid In My Heart, My Mountain Standeth Firm, IShall Never Be MovedLord, Thou Dost Hide Thy Face, And IAm TroubledIt Was But Yesterday That ICould Read My Title Clear, Today My Evidences Are Bedimmed, And My Hopes Are CloudedYesterday ICould 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 DistressIs This Part Of God's Plan With Me? Can This Be The Way In Which God Would Bring Me To Heaven? Yes, It Is Even SoThe 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 Soon EnterThese Trials Are For The Testing And Strengthening Of Your Faiththey Are Waves That Wash You Further Upon The Rockthey Are Winds Which Waft Your Ship The More Swiftly Towards The Desired HavenAccording To David's Words, So It Might Be Said Of You, 'so He Bringeth Them To Their Desired Haven.' By Honour And Dishonour, By Evil Report And By Good Report, By Plenty And By Poverty, By Joy And By Distress, By Persecution And By Peace, By All These Things Is The Life Of Your Souls Maintained, And By Each Of These Are You Helped On Your WayOh, Think Not, Believer, That Your Sorrows Are Out Of God's Plan, They Are Necessary Parts Of It'we Must, Through Much Tribulation, Enter The Kingdom.' Learn, Then, Even To 'count It All Joy When Ye Fall Into Divers Temptations.' 'o Let My Trembling Soul Be Still, And Wait Thy Wise, Thy Holy Will! ICannot, Lord, Thy Purpose See, Yet All Is Well Since Ruled By Thee.'
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