Jesus answered, “You would have no power
over me if it were not given you from above.”
John 19:11
One who was passing through deep waters of affliction
wrote to a friend: “ Is it not a glorious thing to
know that, no difference how unjust a thing may be,
or how absolutely it may seem to be from Satan, by
the time it reaches us it is God’s will for us, and
will work for good to us? For all things work together
for good to us who love God.
And even of the betrayal,
Christ said,
“The cup which my Father gave me, shall I not drink it?”
We live charmed lives if we are living in the center
of God’s will. All the attacks that Satan, through
others’ sin, can hurl against us are not only powerless
to harm us, but are turned into blessings on the way. -H.W.S.
from Streams in the Desert Volume 1 by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman – August 14th