DAY 134 Read Psalm 71; 73; 77; 80.
Today's reading: Many of the psalms express the truth that trials often bring the afflicted soul to a new understanding of God's tender care.
Memory gem: "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search" (Psalm 77:6)
Thought for today:
It has often been said that character is what a man is in the dark. Well, a song in the night is what a Christian is in his heart. It is said that in training the very best songbirds, they are often taken into a dark room and kept there for a long time. There they are permitted to hear only the song of some other good bird. In the darkness they learn to sing the beautiful song they hear. So it often is with us. We learn to sing in the night of trouble.
It is said that Jenny Lind, the great singer, once sang in a public performance where Otto Goldschmidt heard her. As he walked out of the opera house someone asked him how he liked her voice. "Well," he said, "there is something about it that needs changing, needs toning down. If someone would marry her and break her heart and crush her feelings, then she could really sing." Strange to say, he himself married her later on, and he broke her heart too. He crushed her feelings. And then Jenny Lind sang with the sweetest voice ever heard, some say so sweet that the angels wished to stop and hear her sing. It was in the night of suffering and heartbreak that Jenny Lind learned to sweeten her song.
No matter how the darkness may be gathering about you, friend, God will give you a song, and through that song He will bless you and bless others. And someday the morning will come, the eternal morning. Heaven's gates will open, and then, with nights all passed and shadows gone, you will sing in heaven, and there will be no night there.
Today's reading: Many of the psalms express the truth that trials often bring the afflicted soul to a new understanding of God's tender care.
Memory gem: "I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search" (Psalm 77:6)
Thought for today:
It has often been said that character is what a man is in the dark. Well, a song in the night is what a Christian is in his heart. It is said that in training the very best songbirds, they are often taken into a dark room and kept there for a long time. There they are permitted to hear only the song of some other good bird. In the darkness they learn to sing the beautiful song they hear. So it often is with us. We learn to sing in the night of trouble.
It is said that Jenny Lind, the great singer, once sang in a public performance where Otto Goldschmidt heard her. As he walked out of the opera house someone asked him how he liked her voice. "Well," he said, "there is something about it that needs changing, needs toning down. If someone would marry her and break her heart and crush her feelings, then she could really sing." Strange to say, he himself married her later on, and he broke her heart too. He crushed her feelings. And then Jenny Lind sang with the sweetest voice ever heard, some say so sweet that the angels wished to stop and hear her sing. It was in the night of suffering and heartbreak that Jenny Lind learned to sweeten her song.
No matter how the darkness may be gathering about you, friend, God will give you a song, and through that song He will bless you and bless others. And someday the morning will come, the eternal morning. Heaven's gates will open, and then, with nights all passed and shadows gone, you will sing in heaven, and there will be no night there.
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