Isa 58: 14
I will cause you to ride on the heights of the land.
What about Today’s Verse…
One of the first rules of aerodynamics is the flying into the wind quickly increases altitude. The wings of the aeroplane create more lift by flying against the wind. How was this lesson learned? It was learned by watching birds fly. If a bird is simply flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind. But if it senses danger, it turns into the wind to gain altitude, and flies up towards the sun.
The suffering of life is God’s winds. Sometimes they blow against us and are very strong. They are His hurricanes, taking our lives to higher levels, towards His heaven.
Can you remember a summer day when the heat and humidity were so oppressive, you could hardly breathe? But a dark cloud appeared on the horizon, growing larger and larger, until it suddenly brought a rich blessing to your world. The storm raged, lightning flashing, and thunder rumbling. The storm covered the sky, the atmosphere was cleansed, new life was in the air and your world was changed.
Human life works exactly on the same principle. When the storm of life appear, the atmosphere is changed, purified, filled with new life, and part of heaven is brought down to each.
Facing obstacles should make us sing. The wind finds its voice not when rushing across an open sea but when it is hindered by the outstretched limbs of a pine tree or broken by the strings of an aeolian wind harp. Only then does the harp have songs of power and beauty. Send your soul, which has been set free, sweeping across the obstacles of life. Send it through the relentless forests of pain and against even the smallest hindrances and worries of life, and it too will find a voice with which to sing.
Be like a bird that, halting in it flight, rests on a limb too tight, and feeling it give way beneath him sings, knowing he has wings.
