Fill Your Night With Song


I just received an email from my sister and I was disappointed with my mother's response to my plans. I know God is working within me, especially during ar times when I'm really bored and stuck with my routinary work at Texas Instruments, during those times when I do cross-section or just a while while doing decapsulation. God has revealed His wondrous plans for me. Though sometimes when your current situation seems to sap away any hope God has planted inside for you, it's easy be sad and get real - like everybody else does, go abroad, earn money ... but I ask. What for? Isn't being with your loved ones more important than going abroad to earn money? Isn't being with those who encourage and love you more important than amassing self-wealth? Isn't serving God with the purpose He has given you the richest kind of life? I hope you'll find the right answers inside of you. Before I end, I'll share this inspiring article from "Desert In The Streams".

"Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night" (Job 35:10).

Do you have sleepless nights, tossing on the hot pillow, and watching for the first glint of dawn? Ask the Divine Spirit to enable you to fix your thoughts on God your Maker, and believe that He can fill those lonely, dreary hours with song.

Is yours the night of bereavement? Is it not often at such a time that God draws near, and assures the mourner that the Lord has need of the departed loved one, and called "the eager, earnest spirit to stand in the bright throng of the invisible, liberated, radiant, active, intent on some high mission"; and as the thought enters, is there not the beginning of a song?

Is yours the night of discouragement and fancied or actual failure? No one understands you, your friends reproach; but your Maker draws nigh, and gives you a song--a song of hope, the song which is harmonious with the strong, deep music of His providence. Be ready to sing the songs that your Maker gives. --Selected

"What then? Shall we sit idly down and say
The night hath come; it is no longer day?
Yet as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible to day."

The strength of the vessel can be demonstrated only by the hurricane, and the power of the Gospel can be fully shown only when the Christian is subjected to some fiery trial. If God would make manifest the fact that "He giveth songs in the night," He must first make it night. --William Taylor