It was when Joseph was hurting “sold for a servant: whose feet they hurt, with fetters: he was laid in iron: until the time that his word came: the word of the Lord tried him. The king sent and loosed him... and let him go free” (Psa. 105:15-20) that “the word of the Lord tried him.” Often it is in circumstances we would not choose for ourselves that the Word is made real to our hearts by faith. In a way, it is so the whole of our Christian pathway, for it is a path of faith, and where it is faith, it involves the Lord’s Word. We would not change any circumstances, for it is His wisdom and love that allow what we would not choose “prison” as it were, to cause the Word to try us. Will we trust Him?
H. Short