perplexing

"Often God seems to place His children in positions of profound difficulty, leading them into a wedge from which there is no escape; contriving a situation which no human judgment would have permitted, had it been previously consulted. The very cloud conducts them thither. You may be thus involved at this very hour.

"It does seem perplexing and very serious to the last degree, but it is perfectly right. The issue will more than justify him who has brought you hither. It is a platform for the display of His almighty grace and power.

"He will not only deliver you; but in doing so, He will give you a lesson that you will never forget, and to which, in many a psalm and song, in after days, you will revert. You will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has."

– Selected (in Streams in the Desert)

That was the Streams reading for March 1st. For some reason I never read it yesterday morning, but today. And it reminded me immediately of the phone call I got from my sis yesterday evening.

She told me the good news of the birth of a new granddaughter yesterday morning. But in the next sentence said, “They’re already at Children’s in Vancouver.” It turns out the apparently healthy infant was observed by a nurse to have unusual bruising. A CBC confirmed abnormally low platelets. And so this brave family, that I’ve told you about here and here, is again in crisis mode. If you think of it, please pray for baby Rebecca and her mom and dad. And look forward with me to the day when all of us “will never be able to thank God enough for having done just as He has.”