(Another great devotional from my Deserts in the Streams- Devotional)
Nevertheless afterward (Heb. 12:11).
There is a legend that tells of a
German baron who, at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to
tower, that the winds might convert them into an Aeolian harp. And the soft
breezes played about the castle, but no music was born.
But one night there arose a great
tempest, and hill and castle were smitten by the fury of the mighty winds. The
baron went to the threshold to look out upon the terror of the storm, and the
Aeolian harp was filling the air with strains that rang out even above the
clamor of the tempest. It needed the tempest to bring out the
music!
And have we not known men whose
lives have not given out any entrancing music in the day of a calm prosperity,
but who, when the tempest drove against them have astonished their fellows by
the power and strength of their music? "Rain, rain
Beating against the pane!
How
endlessly it pours
Out
of doors
From
the blackened sky
I
wonder why!
Flowers, flowers,
Upspringing after showers,
Blossoming fresh and fair,
Everywhere!
Ah,
God has explained
Why
it rained!"
You can always count on God to
make the "afterward" of difficulties, if rightly overcome, a thousand times
richer and fairer than the forward. "No chastening... seemeth joyous,
nevertheless afterward..." What a yield!
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