[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0607":3},"JUNE 7\r\nWhere is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night (Job 35:10).\r\nDo you have sleepless nights, tossing on the hot pillow, and watching for the first glint of dawn? Ask the Divine Spirit to\r\nenable you to fix your thoughts on God your Maker, and believe that He can fill those lonely, dreary hours with song.\r\nIs yours the night of bereavement? Is it not often at such a time\r\nthat God draws near, and assures the mourner that the Lord has need of the departed loved one, and called \"the eager, earnest spirit to\r\nstand in the bright throng of the invisible, liberated, radiant\r\nactive, intent on some high mission\"; and as the thought enters, is there not the beginning of a song.?\r\nIs yours the night of discouragement and fancied or actual failure?\r\nNo one understands you, your friends reproach; but your Maker draws nigh, and gives you a song-a song of hope, the song which is\r\nharmonious with the strong, deep music of His providence. Be ready to sing the songs that your Maker gives.\r\n--Selected\r\nWhat then? Shall we sit idly down and say The night hath come; it is no longer day?   Yet as the evening twilight fades away,\r\nThe sky is filled with stars, invisible to day.\r\nThe strength of the vessel can be demonstrated only by the\r\nhurricane, and the power of the Gospel can be fully shown only when the Christian is subjected to some fiery trial. If God would make\r\nmanifest the fact that \"He giveth songs in the night\" He must first make it night.\r\n--William Taylor.",1783499793094]