[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0428":3},"APRIL 28\r\nAnd when the children of Israel cried unto the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer ... who delivered them, even Othniel ...\r\nCaleb's younger brother. And the Spirit of the Lord came upon him (Judges 3:9,10).\r\nGod is preparing His heroes; and when opportunity comes, He can fit them into their place in a moment and the world will wonder where\r\nthey came from.\r\nLet the Holy Ghost prepare you, dear friend, by the discipline of life; and when the last finishing touch has been given to the\r\nmarble, it will be easy for God to put it on the pedestal, and fit it into its niche.\r\nThere is a day coming when, like Othniel, we, too, shall judge the\r\nnations, and rule and reign with Christ on the millennial earth.\r\nBut ere that glorious day can be we must let God prepare us, as He did Othniel at Kirjath-sepher, amid the trials of our present life,\r\nand the little victories, the significance of which, perhaps, we little dream. At least let us be sure of this, and if the Holy\r\nGhost has an Othniel ready, the Lord of Heaven and earth has a throne prepared for him.\r\n--A. B. Simpson.\r\nHuman strength and human greatness Spring not from life's sunny side,\r\nHeroes must be more than driftwood Floating on a waveless tide.\r\n\"Every highway of human fife dips in the dale now and then. Every man must go through the tunnel of tribulation before he can travel  on the elevated road of triumph.\"",1783499792962]