[Songs in the Night - June 14]
Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses. Psalm 107:13
AS THE effect of Israel's tribulation was to turn
their hearts toward the Lord and to lead them to cry
out for his promised assistance, so all of our trying experiences
with the world, the flesh, and the Adversary
and the bondage of sin and death—all these appeal to
the new creatures in Christ who have the Father's
promise.
All this leads us more and more to look unto
the Lord from whom cometh our help, and to wait for
his Son from heaven, and to expect the deliverance of
the groaning creation at his second advent.
Is it not
true, then, that present distresses and tribulations are
all working out for us a far more exceeding and eternal
weight of glory, if we are rightly exercised thereby?
And if as true Israelites we have confidence in
the Abrahamic promise, we have it, as the apostle
describes, as an anchor to our souls both sure and stedfast,
entering into that which is beyond the veil,
whither our Forerunner is entered for us—and has
made atonement for us—and from whence he provides
us the blessed deliverance which we hope soon to experience
in the resurrection change, when, in a
moment, in the twinkling of an eye, we shall be made
like him, see him as he is, and share his glory. Z'07-127 R3983:6 (Hymn 56)