[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0515":3},"MAY 15\r\nMen see not the bright light which is in the clouds (Job 37.21).\r\nThe world owes much of its beauty to cloudland. The unchanging blue of the Italian sky hardly compensates for the changefulness and\r\nglory of the clouds. Earth would become a wilderness apart from their ministry. There are clouds in human life, shadowing,\r\nrefreshing, and sometimes draping it in blackness of night but    there is never a cloud without its bright fight \"I do set my bow in the cloud!\"\r\nIf we could see the clouds from the other side where they he in billowy glory, bathed in the fight they intercept like heaped\r\nranges of Alps, we should be amazed at their splendid magnificence.\r\nWe look at their under side; but who shall describe the bright\r\nfight that bathes their summits and searches their valleys and is  reflected from every pinnacle of their expanse? Is not every drop drinking in health-giving qualities, which it will carry to earth?\r\nO child of God! If you could see your sorrows and troubles from the other side; if instead of looking up at them from earth, you would\r\nlook down on them from the heavenly places where you sit with Christ if you knew how they are reflecting in prismatic beauty\r\nbefore the gaze of Heaven, the bright fight of Christ's face, you\r\nwould be content that they should cast their deep shadows over the   mountain slopes of existence. Only remember that clouds are always moving and passing before God's cleansing wind.\r\n--Selected.\r\nI cannot know why suddenly the storm\r\nShould rage so fiercely round me in its wrath; But this I know-God\r\nwatches all my path, And I can trust.\r\nI may not draw aside the mystic veil\r\nThat hides the unknown future from my sight, Nor know if for me waits the dark or light;\r\nBut I can trust.\r\n\r\nI have no power to look across the tide,\r\nTo see while here the land beyond the river; But this I know-I\r\nshall be God's forever; So I can trust.",1783499793026]