Good evening! Below is the devotional I read this morning from Streams in the Desert. The Lord just brought it to my mind again and I feel that He would have me share it here on the blog. I don’t know…perhaps there is someone that needs\u00a0some encouragement\u00a0right now. I pray it will be a blessing.<\/p>\n
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/strong><\/p>\n “And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.” I Kings 19:7<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n And what did God do with His tired servant? Gave him something good to eat, and put him to sleep. Elijah had done splendid work, and had run alongside of the chariot in his excitement, and it had been too much for his physical strength, and the reaction had come on, and he was depressed. The physical needed to be cared for. What many people want is sleep, and the physical ailment attended to. There are grand men and women who get where Elijah was\u2014under the juniper tree! and it comes very soothingly to such to hear the words of the Master: \u201cThe journey is too great for thee, and I am going to refresh you.\u201d Let us not confound physical weariness with spiritual weakness.<\/p>\n I\u2019m too tired to trust and too tired to pray, \u201cWill God forgive me, do you suppose, \u201cWill God forgive you? why think, dear heart, Did she let you want when you could not ask? \u201cAh, how quick was her mother love to see, \u201cThen just drop it all, and give up to rest, \u201cWithout even asking if you may, \u201cHe knows you do pray, He knows you do trust, \u201cWhen He bade them sleep and take their rest, (taken from Streams in the Desert – December 23)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Good evening! Below is the devotional I read this morning from Streams in the Desert. The Lord just brought it to my mind again and I feel that He would have me share it here on the blog. I don’t know…perhaps there is someone that needs\u00a0some encouragement\u00a0right now. I pray it will be a blessing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ “And the angel of the LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.” I Kings 19:7 And what did God do with His tired servant? Gave him something good to eat, and put him to sleep. Elijah had done splendid work, and had run alongside of the chariot in his excitement, and it had been too much for his physical strength, and the reaction had come on, and he was depressed. The physical needed to be cared for. What many people want is sleep, and the physical ailment attended to. There are grand men and women who get where Elijah was\u2014under the juniper tree! and it comes very soothingly to such to hear the words of the Master: \u201cThe journey is too great for thee, and I am going to refresh you.\u201d Let us not confound physical weariness with spiritual weakness. I\u2019m too tired to trust and too tired to pray, Said one, as the over-taxed strength gave way. The one conscious thought by my mind possessed, Is, oh, could I just drop it all and rest. \u201cWill God forgive me, do you suppose, If I go right to sleep as a baby goes, Without an asking if I may, Without ever trying to trust and pray? \u201cWill God forgive you? why think, dear heart, When language to you was an unknown art, Did a mother deny you needed rest, Or refuse to pillow your head on her breast? Did she let you want when you could not ask? Did she set her child an unequal task? Or did she cradle you in her arms, And then guard your slumber against alarms? \u201cAh, how quick was her mother love to see, The unconscious yearnings of infancy. When you\u2019ve grown too tired to trust and pray, When over-wrought nature has quite given way: \u201cThen just drop it all, and give up to rest, As you used to do on a mother\u2019s breast, He knows all about it\u2014the dear Lord knows, So just go to sleep as a baby goes; \u201cWithout even asking if you may, God knows when His child is too tired to pray. He judges not solely by uttered prayer, He knows when the yearnings of love are there. \u201cHe knows you do pray, He knows you do trust, And He knows, too, the limits\u2019 of poor weak dust. Oh, the wonderful sympathy of Christ, For His chosen ones in that midnight tryst, \u201cWhen He bade them sleep and take their rest, While on Him the guilt of the whole world pressed\u2014 You\u2019ve given your life up to Him to keep, Then don\u2019t be afraid to go right to sleep.\u201d (taken from Streams in the Desert – December 23) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47,63,59,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comfort","category-compassion","category-gods-love","category-trials"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-1YO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSaid one, as the over-taxed strength gave way.
\nThe one conscious thought by my mind possessed,
\nIs, oh, could I just drop it all and rest.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nIf I go right to sleep as a baby goes,
\nWithout an asking if I may,
\nWithout ever trying to trust and pray?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhen language to you was an unknown art,
\nDid a mother deny you needed rest,
\nOr refuse to pillow your head on her breast?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nDid she set her child an unequal task?
\nOr did she cradle you in her arms,
\nAnd then guard your slumber against alarms?<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe unconscious yearnings of infancy.
\nWhen you\u2019ve grown too tired to trust and pray,
\nWhen over-wrought nature has quite given way:<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAs you used to do on a mother\u2019s breast,
\nHe knows all about it\u2014the dear Lord knows,
\nSo just go to sleep as a baby goes;<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGod knows when His child is too tired to pray.
\nHe judges not solely by uttered prayer,
\nHe knows when the yearnings of love are there.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd He knows, too, the limits\u2019 of poor weak dust.
\nOh, the wonderful sympathy of Christ,
\nFor His chosen ones in that midnight tryst,<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhile on Him the guilt of the whole world pressed\u2014
\nYou\u2019ve given your life up to Him to keep,
\nThen don\u2019t be afraid to go right to sleep.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n