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Streams in the Desert
“And seekest thou great things
for thyself? Seek them not: for, behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh,
saith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey in all places
whither thou goest" (Jeremiah 45:5).
A promise given for hard places, and a promise of safety and life in
the midst of tremendous pressure, a life "for a prey."
It may well adjust itself to our own times, which are growing harder
as we near the end of the age, and the Tribulation times.
What is the meaning of "a life for a prey?"
It means a life snatched out of the jaws of the destroyer, as David
snatched the lamb from the lion.
It means not removal from the noise of the battle and the presence of
our foes; but it means a table in the midst of our enemies, a shelter from the
storm, a fortress amid the foe, a life preserved in the face of continual
pressure: Paul's healing when pressed out of measure so that he despaired of
life; Paul's Divine help when the thorn remained, but the power of Christ
rested upon him and the grace of Christ was sufficient.
Lord, give me my life for a prey, and in the hardest places help me
today to be victorious. -- Days
of Heaven upon Earth.
We often pray to be delivered from calamities; we even trust that we
shall be; but we do not pray to be made what we should be, in the very presence
of the calamities; to live amid them, as long as they last, in the
consciousness that we are, held and sheltered by the Lord, and can therefore
remain in the midst of them, so long as they continue, without any hurt.
For forty days and nights, the Saviour was kept in the presence of
Satan in the wilderness, and that, under circumstances of special trial, His
human nature being weakened by want of food and rest.
The furnace was heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated,
but the three Hebrew children were kept a season amid its flames as calm and composed
in the presence of the tyrant's last appliances of torture, as they were in the
presence of himself before their time of deliverance came.
And the livelong night did Daniel sit among the lions, and when he was
taken up out of the den, "no manner of hurt was found upon him,
because he believed in his God."
They dwelt in the presence of the enemy, because they dwelt in the
presence of God.
The public domain version
of this classic devotional is the unabridged edition of Streams in the Desert.
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