It is a glorious thing to get to know God in a new way in the inner chamber.

It is something still greater and more glorious to know God as the all-sufficient One

and to wait on His Spirit to open our hearts and minds wide to receive the great things,

the new things which He really longs to bestow on those who wait for Him.

~ Andrew Murray ~

Surrender

"Many people want to direct God instead of surrendering themselves to be directed by Him.

They want to show Him the way instead of submissively following where He leads." Madame Guyon

I said, "Let me walk in the field";

God said, "No, walk in the town";

I said, "There are no flowers there";

He said, "No flowers, but a crown."

I said "But the sky is black,

There is nothing but noise and din";

but He wept as He sent me back,

"There is more," He said, "there is sin."

I said, "I will miss the light,

And friends will miss me, they say";

he answered me, "choose tonight,

If I am to miss you, or they."

I pleaded for time to be given;

He said, "Is it hard to decide?

It will not seem hard in Heaven

To have followed the steps of your Guide."

I cast one look at the field,

Then set my face to the town;

He said, "My child, do you yield?

Will you leave the flowers for the crown?"

Then into His hand went mine,

And into my heart came He;

And I walk in a light Divine,

The path I had feared to see.

~ George MacDonald ~

Forever The Same ....

"The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:

but the Word of our God shall stand for ever.

KJV ~ Isaiah 40:8"

"Amidst all revolutions among men, his promise shall be firm. 

It shall not only live amidst the changes of dynasties, 

and the revolutions of empires, but it shall continue forever and ever. 

This is designed for support to an afflicted and oppressed people; 

and it must have been to them, in their bondage, the source of high consolation. 

But it is equally so now. Amidst all the changes on earth; the revolutions of empires; 

the vanishing of kingdoms, God is the same, and his promises are unfailing. 

We see the grass wither at the return of autumn, or in the drought: 

we see the flower of the field lose its beauty, and decay; 

we see man rejoicing in his vigor and his health, cut down in an instant; we see cities fall, 

and kingdoms lose their power and vanish from among nations, but God changes not. 

He presides in all these revolutions, and sits calm and unmoved amidst all these changes. 

Not one of his promises shall fail; and at the end of all the changes which human things shall undergo, 

"Yahweh," the God of his people, will be the same." 

-Albert Barnes Commentary