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Streams In The Desert 2
March 31
~Mrs. Charles E. Cowman~Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee, because he trusteth in Thee
~Isaiah 26:3~Quiet tension is not trust. It is simply compressed anxiety.
~Gospel Thumb Tack~To often we think we are trusting when we are merely controlling our panic. True faith gives not only a calm exterior but a quiet heart.
Miss Amy Carmichael gives a beautiful illustration from nature of that kind of trust. The sun bird, one of the tiniest of birds, a native of India, builds a pendant nest, hanging it by four frail threads, generally from a spray of valaris. It is a delicate work of art, with its roof and tiny porch, which a splash of water or a child's touch might destroy. Miss Carmichael tells how she saw a little sun bird building such a nest just before the monsoon season, and felt that for once bird wisdom had failed; for how could such a delicate structure, in such an exposed situation, weather the winds and the torrential rains? The monsoon broke, and from her window she watched the nest swaying with the branches in the wind. Then she perceived that the nest had been so placed that the leaves immediately above it formed little gutters which carried the water away from the nest. There sat the sun bird, with its tiny head resting on her little porch, and whenever a drop of water fell on her long, curved beak, she sucked it in as if it were nectar. The storms raged furiously, but the sun bird sat, quiet and unafraid, hatching her tiny eggs.
We have a more substantial rest for head and heart than the sun bird's porch! We have the promises of God. They are enough, however terrifying the storm.
~J.C. Macaulay~
Jeremiah 17:7,8
7 "But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
8 He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit."
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