When you have driven the devil out of every other corner of
your heart, his last refuge is to take shelter in negative analysis. He will say,
‘You prayed before and nothing happened,’ or, ‘You have been praying so long
for that …’ Or perhaps he will say, ‘There is no way that it can come about.’
When this kind of thing comes into your thought, do not be
discouraged but rather rejoice, for this means that satan is positively in his
very last ditch, and now is the time to clear him out; and if you will be loyal
to God it will not be difficult. Now is the time to know the Truth quietly, and
to hold to it in spite of false appearances. Now is the time to witness to the
faith that is in you. No finer opportunity for a great step forward spiritually
can ever come to you than this one. So take advantage of it and rejoice in your
good fortune.
It is not when things are going well that we make our progress.
It is not even when things are going wrong and yet we feel sure that we can
handle them with prayer, that we advance. It is when, smitten by the temptation
to discouragement or even despair, we yet stand for what we know is the Truth,
and say with Job, ‘Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him’ Job 13:15
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