Streams in the Desert September 12 Daily Devotional

Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? (Song of Sol. 8:5).
Some one gained a good lesson from a Southern prayer meeting. A colored brother asked the Lord for various blessings-as you and I do, and thanked the Lord for many already received-as you and I do; but he closed with this unusual petition: "And, 0 Lord, support us!
Yes support us Lord on every leanin'side!" Have you any leaning sides? This humble man's prayer pictures them in a new way and shows the Great Supporter in a new light also. He is always walking by the Christian, ready to extend His mighty arm and steady the weak one on "every leanin'side. "
Child of My love, lean hard
And let Me feel the pressure of thy care; I know thy burden, child. I shaped it;
Poised it in Mine own hand; made no proportion In its weight to thine unaided strength,
For even as I laid it on, I said,
"I shall be near, and while she leans on Me, This burden shall be Mine, not hers;
So shall I keep My child within the circling arms Of My Own love." Here lay it down, nor fear
To impose it on a shoulder which upholds
The government of worlds, Yet closer come:
Thou art not near enough. I would embrace thy care; So I might feel My child reposing on My breast.
Thou lovest Me? I knew it. Doubt not then;
But loving Me, lean hard.