the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
The Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayers. Psalms 102:17. They looked unto him and were lightened, and their faces were not ashamed. Psalms 34:5. See also the instance of the woman of Canaan. Matthew 15:21-28. And what Christ says, Luke 11:5-13. Luke 13:1-8. Likewise of a tossed vessel. Matthew 8:24-27.
The load of outward and inward afflictions is not always prayed away with a few words, or in a few days. Sometimes it is necessary even to wrestle with God, and be very instant too. How else could faith and patience be exercised? If, therefore, the trials are sharp and lasting, it is not to weaken our faith; but to stir us up to be more instant, zealous in prayer, and the right use of the word of God; and by these means to be so much more gloriously delivered and strengthened in faith; for whatever God sends upon us, it is not for the lessening, but for the increase of our faith.
God is the refuge of his saints,
When storms of sharp distress invade;
Ere we can offer our complaints,
Behold him present with his aid.
Let mountains from their seats be hurled
Down to the deep, and buried there;
Convulsions shake the solid world,
Our faith shall never yield to fear.
Loud may the troubled ocean roar,
In sacred peace our souls abide,
While every nation every shore,
Trembles and dreads the swelling tide.
