There is no circumstance
no trouble
no testing
that can ever touch me until,
first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ,
right through to me.
If it has come that far,
it has come with a great purpose,
which I may not understand at the moment.
But I refuse to panic,
as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it
as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.


:: Alan Redpath