The Believer's Experience.

Do you not know what it is sometimes, when spiritual things are at a very low ebb, when you cannot find any joy, and scarcely any hope, when you look into your own heart, and all seems as dry as the earth is after a long autumn drought? You have no power, no strength and scarcely any desire. You sit down and say, "I am afraid that I am no child of God, I am given up, I am spiritually dead." Yet have you never known within an hour, the great water-floods to be let loose and your soul to be full of feeling, full of faith, hope, joy, love? The chariot wheels had been taken off, and the chariot dragged very heavily, but now, or ever you are aware, your soul has made you like the chariots of Amminadib. You are leaping, you are laughing for very joy. And The Lord has turned your captivity, and filled your mouth with laughter and your tongue with singing, and done it all of a sudden too. God can do strange things for His people, even wonderful things which they looked not for.