WAITING AND WATCHING

WAITING AND WATCHING

I wish you could have told me something more hopeful about ————, but I believe the true way is to follow the example of the Israelites in patiently walking round Jericho. It is sure evidence of faith in God when we can wait quietly on Him. It is not only “continuing in prayer”, but “watching thereunto”. The more quietly one walks on waiting upon God, the more surely and evidently will the work be of God. When we are waiting on God we are made sensible of the mind of Christ so that we are not unfeeling, though we be apparently inactive.

... ^[p. 120] I felt how you were learning to cast your care on Him who careth for you. Sorrow knits the hearts of friends nearer together than joy does. Blessed be God, He is the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. He knows the sort of pressure which will keep our hearts from wandering to broken cisterns which hold no water. May you both draw richly and abundantly from Him — the fountain of living waters.