Excerpts From Streams In The Desert...

Have you entered the storehouses...which I reserve for times of trouble? Job 38:22-23

Our trials are great opportunities, but all to often we simply see them as large obstacles. If only we would recognize every difficult situation as something God has chosen to prove His love to us, each obstacle would then become a place of shelter and rest, and a demonstration to others of His inexpressible power. If we would look for signs of His glorious handiwork, then every cloud would indeed become a rainbow and every difficult mountain path would become one of ascension, transformation and glorification.

If we would look at our past, most of us would realize that the times of greatest stress and felt that every path was blocked were the very times our heavenly Father chose to do the kindest things for us and bestow His richest blessings.