EXTRACTS

You could never have the bow if you had not the cloud. God brings the cloud—you may have tribulation; it is the normal surrounding of the saint; but when God brings a cloud, an exercise, a difficulty, look out for the bow. There is not a sorrow or an exercise or a difficulty, but God means you to have through it the light of the beauty and blessedness of Christ in a way you never had before. So that you may have a peculiar sense of God’s faithfulness, and that nothing can separate you from the love of Christ nor from the love of God; that is the bow.

C. A. Coates (‘Outline of Genesis’, p.82)

This keeping the flesh mortified is the great thing, the secret of all strength, in practical difficulties; and nothing will do it but living in communion and fellowship with the Lord.

J. N. Darby (‘Collected Wrtgs’, N.S. Vol. 17, p.359)

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