2Ki 3:16 And he said, Thus saith the LORD, Make this valley full of ditches.
2Ki 3:17 For thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.
2Ki 3:18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
To human thinking it was simply impossible, but nothing is hard for GOD.
Without
a sound or sign, from sources invisible and apparently impossible, the
floods came stealing in all night long; and when the morning dawned,
those ditches were flooded with the crystal waters, and reflecting the
rays of the morning sun from the red hills of Edom.
Our
unbelief is always wanting some outward sign.
The religion of many is
largely sensational, and they are not satisfied of its genuineness
without manifestations, etc.; but the greatest triumph of faith is to be
still and know that He is GOD.
The great victory of
faith is to stand before some impassable Red Sea, and hear the Master
say, "Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD," and "Go forward!"
As we step out without any sign or sound-not a wave-splash and
wetting our very feet as we take the first step into its waters, still
marching on we shall see the sea divide and the pathway open through the
very midst of the waters.
If we have seen the
miraculous workings of GOD in some marvelous case of healing or some
extraordinary providential deliverance, I am sure the thing that has
impressed us most has been the quietness with which it was all done, the
absence of everything spectacular and sensational, and the utter sense
of nothingness which came to us as we stood in the presence of this Mighty GOD and felt how easy, it was for Him to do it all without the
faintest effort on His part or the slightest help on ours.
It
is not the part of faith to question, but to obey.
The ditches were
made, and the water came pouring in from some supernatural source. What a
lesson for our faith!
Are you craving a spiritual
blessing? Open the trenches, and God will fill them.
And this, too, in
the most unexpected places and in the most unexpected ways.
Oh,
for that faith that can act by faith and not by sight, and expect God
to work although we see no wind or rain.
~A. B. Simpson~
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