He Will Be With Thee

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The disciples thought that angry sea separated them from Jesus. Some of them thought even worse than that; they thought that the trouble that had come upon them was a sign that Jesus had forgotten all about them, and did not care for them. 0 dear friend, that is when troubles have a sting, when the devil whispers, God has forgotten you; God has forsaken you-when your unbelieving heart cries as Gideon cried, "If the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us?" (Judg. 6:1313And Gideon said unto him, Oh my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the Lord bring us up from Egypt? but now the Lord hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites. (Judges 6:13)).
The trial has come upon us to bring the Lord nearer to us. The trial has not come upon us to separate us from Him, but to make us cling to Him more faithfully, more tenaciously, more simply.