[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1207":3},"DECEMBER 7\r\nYe shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your\r\ncattle, and your beasts And this is but a light thing in the sight    of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites also into your hands (2 Kings 3:16-18).\r\nTo human thinking it was simply impossible, but nothing is hard for God.\r\nWithout a sound or sign, from sources invisible and apparently\r\nimpossible, the floods came stealing in all night long-, and when the morning dawned, those ditches were flooded with the crystal waters, and reflecting the rays of the morning sun from the red    hills of Edom.\r\nOur unbelief is always wanting some outward sign. The religion of many is largely sensational, and they are not satisfied of its\r\ngenuineness without manifestations, etc.; but the greatest triumph of faith is to be still and know that He is God.\r\nThe great victory of faith is to stand before some impassable Red\r\nSea, and hear the Master say, \"Stand still, and see the salvation\r\nof the Lord,\" and \"Go forward!\" As we step out without any sign or    sound--not a wave-splash--and wetting our very feet as we take the first step into the waters, still marching on we shall see the sea\r\ndivide and the pathway open through the very midst of the waters.\r\nIf we have seen the miraculous workings of God in some marvelous\r\ncase of healing or some extraordinary providential deliverance, I\r\nam sure the thing that has impressed us most has been the quietness with which it was all done, the absence of everything spectacular\r\nand sensational, and the utter sense of nothingness which came to   us as we stood in the presence of this mighty God and felt how easy\r\nit was for Him to do it all without the faintest effort on His part or the slightest help on ours.\r\nIt is not the part of faith to question, but to obey . The ditches\r\nwere made, and the water came pouring in from some supernatural\r\n\r\nsource. What a lesson for our faith!\r\nAre you craving a spiritual blessing? Open the trenches, and God will fill them. And this, too, in the most unexpected places and in   the most unexpected ways.\r\nOh, for that faith that can act by faith and not by sight, and\r\nexpect God to work although we see no wind or rain. --A. B. Simpson.",1783499794098]