Light

He went out, not knowing whither he went. (Hebrews 11:8)

It is faith without sight. When we can see, it is not faith, but reasoning.  In crossing the Atlantic we observed this very principle of faith. We saw no path upon the sea, nor sign of the shore. And yet day by day we were marking our path upon the chart as exactly as if there had followed us a great chalk line upon the sea. And when we came within twenty miles of land, we knew where we were as exactly as if we had seen it all three thousand miles ahead.

How had we measured and marked our course? Day by day our captain had taken his instruments and, looking up to the sky, had fixed his course by the sun. He was sailing by the heavenly, not the earthly lights.

So faith looks up and sails on, by God's great Sun, not seeing one shore line or earthly lighthouse or path upon the way. Often its steps seem to lead into utter uncertainty, and even darkness and disaster; but He opens the way, and often makes such midnight hours the very gates of day. Let us go forth this day, not knowing, but trusting.

(Days of Heaven upon Earth) 

August 23rd in Streams in the Desert 

Compiled by Mrs. Chas. E. Cowman

For it is You who light my lamp; 

the LORD my God lightens my darkness.

Psalm 18:28

The sun shall no longer be your light by day, 

nor for brightness shall the moon give light to you; 

but the LORD will be to you an everlasting light, 

and your God your glory. 

Your sun shall no longer go down, 

nor shall your moon withdraw itself; 

for the LORD will be your everlasting light, 

and the days of your mourning shall be ended. 

Isaiah 60:19-20

The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, 

for the glory of God illuminated it. 

The Lamb is its light. 

Revelation 21:23