Wednesday, October 24, 2007

L.B. Cowman is the woman!

So I was reading in "Streams in the Desert" and I was searching through by subject and came across the entry for February 9th. It tells a story of a woman who had a dream she saw three women praying. The Lord walked past each of them; the first he bent down and touched and spoke tender words of love to; the second he touched on the shoulder and smiled approvingly; the third he pasted by, with a quick glance. The woman told herself that he must have loved the first the best, the second less than that, and that the third must have greived him. He responds with this:

"O woman! how wrongly hast
thou interpreted Me. The first kneeling woman
needs all the weight of My tenderness and care to
keep her feet in My narrow way. She needs My
love, thought and help every moment of the day.
Without it she would fail and fall.

"The second has stronger faith and deeper love,
and I can trust her to trust Me however things
may go and whatever people do.

"The third, whom I seemed not to notice, and even
to neglect, has faith and love of the finest
quality, and her I am training by quick and
drastic processes for the highest and holiest
service."

He expands on that further below, and if I had to try and sum up all of who I want to be in life (which can be wrapped up into who I want to be in Christ) this would be it.:

"She knows Me so intimately, and trusts Me so
utterly, that she is independent of words or
looks or any outward intimation of My approval.
She is not dismayed nor discouraged by any
circumstances through which I arrange that she
shall pass; she trusts Me when sense and reason
and every finer instinct of the natural heart
would rebel;--because she knows that I am working
in her for eternity, and that what I do, though
she knows not the explanation now, she will
understand hereafter.

"I am silent in My love because I love beyond the
power of words to express, or of human hearts to
understand, and also for your sakes that you may
learn to love and trust Me in Spirit-taught,
spontaneous response to My love, without the spur
of anything outward to call it forth."


1 comment:

David Slenk said...

L.B. Cowman is indeed "the woman"... bet she's not as cool as you, though. Making you even better than L.B. Cowman. Booya.