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A Way Through the Storm
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee”
(Isaiah 26:3).
A foreign missionary, Amy Carmichael, gives a beautiful illustration from nature of this kind of trust.
“One of the tiniest song birds of India builds a pendant nest hanging it from four frail threads. It is a delicate work of art, with its roof and tiny porch, which a splash of water or a child’s touch might destroy. One day I saw the bird building a nest just before monsoon season, and felt that for once it had failed in its wisdom. How could such a delicate structure, in such an exposed situation, weather the winds and torrential rains? The monsoon broke, and from my window I watched the nest swaying with the branches in the wind. Then I realized that it had been so placed that the leaves immediately above formed gutters which carried the water away from the abode. There sat the bird, with its tiny head resting on her little porch, and whenever a drop of water fell on her long, curved beak, she sucked it in as if it were nectar.”
We have a more secure rest for our heart than the song bird’s porch. We have the promises of God, and they are sufficient to carry us through the worst of life’s storms.
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