Hope Against Hope

Each trail I faced during my life, and looking back now, brought me little closer to my Heavenly Husband, BUT it was babysteps with a lot of falling. It was only when I went through one of the worst trails, that led me to RMI, that I truly grabbed hold of my Husband and started to believe that He has a plan and a purpose in our trails. But He needed to refine me more and I went through the custody trail.

These were the trails that drew me closer to my Husband, because He was all that I had through these trails. These were the trails that taught me the most, not just His principles, but also to know Him more, rely on Him more and to believe. It taught me to hope against all hope. These trails not only changed and refined me, it changed my life in the best way possible.
June 2

Streams in the Desert

Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed... .Without weakening in his faith. (Romans 4:18–19)

I will never forget the statement which that great man of faith George Mueller once made to a gentleman who had asked him the best way to have strong faith: “The only way to know strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm through severe testings.”

How true this is! You must trust when all else fails.

Dear soul, you may scarcely realize the value of your present situation. If you are enduring great afflictions right now, you are at the source of the strongest faith. God will teach you during these dark hours to have the most powerful bond to His throne you could ever know, if you will only submit.

“Don’t be afraid; just believe” (Mark 5:36). But if you ever are afraid, simply look up and say, “When I am afraid, I will trust in you” (Ps. 56:3). Then you will be able to thank God for His school of sorrow that became for you the school of faith. A. B. Simpson

Great faith must first endure great trials.

God’s greatest gifts come through great pain. Can we find anything of value in the spiritual or the natural realm that has come about without tremendous toil and tears? Has there ever been any great reform, any discovery benefiting humankind, or any soul-awakening revival, without the diligence and the shedding of blood of those whose sufferings were actually the pangs of its birth? For the temple of God to be built, David had to bear intense afflictions. And for the gospel of grace to be extricated from Jewish tradition, Paul’s life had to be one long agony.

Take heart, O weary, burdened one, bowed down

Beneath your cross;

Remember that your greatest gain may come

Through greatest loss.

Your life is nobler for a sacrifice,

And more divine.

Acres of blooms are crushed to make a drop

Of perfume fine.

Because of storms that lash the ocean waves,

The waters there

Keep purer than if the heavens o’erhead

Were always fair.