If you cannot see Christ with you in the furnace, you can be quite sure He is there. What though I were in the deep three days and three nights if I have Christ with me there! Whatever the place I am brought into, I shall find sweetness if He is with me.
O do not let Christ have the second place! It is to be nothing else than Christ and you, and you and Christ, all the way through the wilderness. Let Him always be the only object before your mind. Refuse to see anything save with Him. Having Him you will find strength for everything.