Streams in the Desert June 7 Daily Devotional

Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night (Job 35:10).
Do you have sleepless nights, tossing on the hot pillow, and watching for the first glint of dawn? Ask the Divine Spirit to
enable you to fix your thoughts on God your Maker, and believe that He can fill those lonely, dreary hours with song.
Is yours the night of bereavement? Is it not often at such a time
that God draws near, and assures the mourner that the Lord has need of the departed loved one, and called "the eager, earnest spirit to
stand in the bright throng of the invisible, liberated, radiant
active, intent on some high mission"; and as the thought enters, is there not the beginning of a song.?
Is yours the night of discouragement and fancied or actual failure?
No one understands you, your friends reproach; but your Maker draws nigh, and gives you a song-a song of hope, the song which is
harmonious with the strong, deep music of His providence. Be ready to sing the songs that your Maker gives.
--Selected
What then? Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no longer day? Yet as the evening twilight fades away,
The sky is filled with stars, invisible to day.
The strength of the vessel can be demonstrated only by the
hurricane, and the power of the Gospel can be fully shown only when the Christian is subjected to some fiery trial. If God would make
manifest the fact that "He giveth songs in the night" He must first make it night.
--William Taylor.