[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0508":3},"MAY 8\r\nWalking in the midst of the fire (Daniel 3.25).\r\nThe fire did not arrest their motion; they walked in the midst of Tit It was one of the streets through which they moved to their  destiny. The comfort of Christ's revelation is not that it teaches emancipation from sorrow, but emancipation through sorrow.\r\n0 my God, teach me, when the shadows have gathered, that I am only\r\n\r\nin a tunnel. It is enough for me to know that it will be all right some day.\r\nThey tell me that I shall stand upon the peaks of Olivet, the\r\nheights of resurrection glory. But I want more, 0 my Father; I want Calvary to lead up to it. I want to know that the shadows of this\r\nworld are the shades of an avenue-the avenue to the house of my Father. Tell me I am only forced to climb because Thy house is on\r\nthe hill! I shall receive no hurt from sorrow if I shall walk in the\r\nmidst of the fire. --George Matheson.\r\n\"The road is too rough,\" I said; \"It is uphill all the way;\r\nNo flowers, but thorns instead;\r\nAnd the skies over head are grey.\"\r\nBut One took my hand at the entrance dim, And sweet is the road that I walk with Him.\r\n\"The cross is too great,\" I cried-- \"More than the back can bear,\r\nSo rough and heavy and wide, And nobody by to care.\"\r\nAnd One stooped softly and touched my hand: \"I know. I care. And I understand.\"\r\nThen why do we fret and sigh; Cross-bearers all we go:\r\nBut the road ends by-and-by\r\nIn the dearest place we know, And every step in the journey we May take in the Lord's own company.",1783499793003]