Streams in the Desert November 29 Daily Devotional

Nevertheless afterward (Heb. 12:11).
There is a legend that tells of a German baron who at his castle on the Rhine, stretched wires from tower to tower, that the winds
might convert them into an Aeolian harp. And the soft breezes played about the castle, but no music was born.
But one night there arose a great tempest and hill and castle were smitten by the fury of the mighty winds. The baron went to the
threshold to look out upon the terror of the storm, and the Aeolian harp was filling the air with strains that rang out even above the
clamor of the tempest It needed the tempest to bring out the music!
And have we not known men whose fives have not given out any
entrancing music in the day of a calm prosperity, but who, when the

tempest drove against them have astonished their fellows by the power and strength of their music?
Rain, rain
Beating against the pane! How endlessly it pours Out of doors
From the blackened sky- I wonder why!
Flowers, flowers,
Upspringing after showers, Blossoming fresh and fair, Everywhere!
Ah, God has explained Why it rained!
You can always count on God to make the "afterward" of
difficulties, if rightly overcome, a thousand times richer and fairer than the forward. "No chastening . . . seemeth joyous, nevertheless afterward. . . " What a yield!