Job 23:10. But he knoweth the way that I take:
Oh, what a mercy that is! "I cannot see him, but he can see me; my grief hath blinded mine eyes with floods of tears, but nothing blinds his eyes. Like as a father pitieth his children, so does he pity me, and regards me with the full observation of his gigantic mind: ‘ He knoweth the way that I take.’"
Job 23:10. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
It is grand to be able to say that while you are in the fire. It is very easy to say it about another man who is in the furnace; but when you are in there yourself, then to say, "I shall come forth as gold," is the sublimity of faith! It is a very simple matter to say, "If I were again put into the fire, I know I should come forth as gold;" but it is when the burning heat is melting you, when you seem yourself to be shriveled up in the crucible, and so little of you is left, then is the time still to say, "When the Lord hath finished his work upon me, when he hath thoroughly assayed me, I shall come forth as gold."
Job 23:10. But he knoweth the way that I take:
Oh, what a mercy that is! "I cannot see him, but he can see me; my grief hath blinded mine eyes with floods of tears, but nothing blinds his eyes. Like as a father pitieth his children, so does he pity me, and regards me with the full observation of his gigantic mind: ‘ He knoweth the way that I take.’"
Job 23:10. When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
It is grand to be able to say that while you are in the fire. It is very easy to say it about another man who is in the furnace; but when you are in there yourself, then to say, "I shall come forth as gold," is the sublimity of faith! It is a very simple matter to say, "If I were again put into the fire, I know I should come forth as gold;" but it is when the burning heat is melting you, when you seem yourself to be shriveled up in the crucible, and so little of you is left, then is the time still to say, "When the Lord hath finished his work upon me, when he hath thoroughly assayed me, I shall come forth as gold."