[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0204":3},"FEBRUARY 4\r\nI will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth (Isa. 58:14).\r\nThose who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and\r\nfly against it The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is\r\nflying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets   danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher, and it flies away towards the very sun.\r\n\r\nSufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His\r\nstrong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens.\r\nYou have seen in the summer time a daywhen the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on\r\nthe western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and\r\nthunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed.\r\nHuman life is worked out according to exactly the same principle.   When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled\r\nwith new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. --Selected.\r\nObstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when\r\nrushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine stings of an Aeolian\r\nharp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul\r\nsweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of    pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it too, will find its singing voice. --Selected.\r\nBe like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight.\r\nAnd feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings.",1783499792048]