Drive Into His Arms!
"To console those who mourn in Zion,
to give them beauty for ashes, the oil
of joy for mourning."
Isaiah 61: 3
Kay Arthur was bitterly disappointed when she contracted a
heart infection that forced her removal from the mission field.
She and her family, serving in Mexico, were forced to return
home. “I felt like a failure,” she wrote. “Depression set in
until
I cried, ‘Father, whatever You
want.’
"It would be several years before I saw how God used those
formative years of study in Mexico to prepare me to write
inductive Bible studies that would reach 52 countries.”
“My disappointments aren’t over,” Kay admits. “Pain and
trials are almost constant companions,
but never enemies.
They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes
my
disappointments and works everything together for good.”
Sometimes we feel our world is falling apart, but the lessons
learned through pain often bring hidden blessings. The Lord
promises in Isaiah 61 to exchange our mourning with His oil
of joy and to give a garment of praise to those who are
weighed down in spirit.
Cast your burdens on the Lord and let Him become
the strength of your heart. Let trouble drive you into
His sovereign arms.
"The devil sometimes goes too far. He
drives us straight into the Lord’s arms."
Ruth Bell Graham
