Finding Hope in Loneliness With Amy CarmichaelSample

Accept Dull Days with Joy

I once wrote that God always answers us in the deeps, not in the shallows of our prayers. Hasn’t it been so with you?

One of the hardest things in our secret prayer life is to accept with joy and not with grief the answers to our deep­est prayers. At least I have found it so. It was a long time before I discovered that whatever came was the answer. I had expected something so different that I did not recognize it when it came.

And He doesn’t explain. He trusts us not to be offended; that’s all.

Dry times are in a way trusted times. My word this morning was in Psalm 65:12, about the drops of His blessing falling on the pastures of the wilderness. It is a most comforting word.

Life, any life, can be stifled by the pettiness of the daily round. But yours won’t be. One quick look up in the dull­est moment and you are with Him whom your heart loves, your Life, your All.

All sorts of days come and go—they go, that’s the best of them. Don’t let the dull days pass without giving you what only dullness ever can give. It isn’t the days of high tension that try us most, and so give us most; it’s the days that seem all grey and dull. They test the quality of the gold. They prove it. “Salute Apelles, the approved in Christ.” “God knows, not we, the tests he stood” is Moule’s note on Romans 16:10. I shall think of you as Apelles.