Mysteries So Bright

You will always be at the top, never at the bottom. DEUTERONOMY 28:13

Cowman, L. B. E.. Streams in the Desert Morning and Evening: 365 Devotions

KJV This verse came to me first as a very real message from God in a time of great pressure. We had fourteen guests in the Mission house and were almost without domestic help. I had, perforce, to lay aside correspondence and other duties and give my time and attention to cooking and housework, and was feeling the strain. Then God’s Word spoke to me with power: “Thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath,” and in a moment I saw there was no need to go under—no need to be overwhelmed by my circumstances. No need to trouble because it seemed as if I could not get through and my ordinary work was getting in arrears—somehow, I could be above it all! “Above only, and not beneath.” How often I used to say as I went about my kitchen, “I refuse to go down,” and how the lesson I learned in those difficult days has been an inspiration ever since. Do you wonder that Deuteronomy 28:13 is one of my favorite verses in the Bible?

Cowman, L. B. E.. Streams in the Desert Morning and Evening: 365 Devotions (pp. 603-604). (Function). Kindle Edition.