[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0206":3},"FEBRUARY 6\r\nHe turned the sea into dry land; they went through the flood on did we rejoice in him (Psalm 66:6).\r\nIt is a striking assertion, \"through the floods \" (the place where we might have expected nothing but trembling and terror,\r\nanguish and dismay) \"there,\" says the Psalmist, \"did we rejoice in him!\"\r\nHow many there are who can endorse this as their\r\nthat \"there,\" in their very seasons of distress and sadness, they have been enabled, as they never did before, to triumph and\r\nrejoice.\r\nHow near their God in covenant is brought! How brightly shine His promises! In the day of our prosperity we cannot see the brilliancy of these. like the sun at noon, hiding out the stars from sight\r\nthey are indiscernible; but when night overtakes, the deep, dark\r\nnight of sorrow, out come these dustering stars-blessed constellations of Bible hope and promise of consolation.\r\nLike Jacob at Jabbok, it is when our earthly sun goes down that the Divine Angel comes forth, and we wrestle with Him and prevail.\r\nIt was at night \"in the evening.\" Aaron fit the sanctuary lamps. It is in the night of trouble the brightest lamps of the believer are   often kindled.\r\nIt was in his loneliness and exile John had the glorious vision of\r\nhis Redeemer. There is many a Patmos still in the world, whose\r\nbrightest remembrances are those of God's presence and upholding grace and love in solitude and sadness.\r\nHow many pilgrims, still passing through these Red Seas and Jordans of earthly affliction, will be enabled in the retrospect of\r\neternity to say-full of the memories of God's great goodness\"We went through the flood on foot there-there, in these dark\r\nexperiences, with the surging waves on every side, deep calling to\r\ndeep, Jordan, as when Israel crossed it in 'the time of the overflowing' (flood), yet 'there did we rejoice in Him!' \"\r\n--Dr. Macduff.\r\n\r\n\"And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the door of\r\ntrouble for a door of hope: and she shall sing THERE\" (Hosea 2:15).",1783499792048]