Trust in God's Timing

This is God's way.  In the darkest hours of the night, His tread draws near across the billows.  As the day of execution is breaking, the angel comes to Peter's cell.  When the scaffold for Mordecai is complete, the royal sleeplessness leads to a reaction in favor of the favored race. 

Ah, soul, it may have to come to the worst with thee ere thou art delivered; but thou wilt be delievered!  God may keep thee waiting, but He will ever be mindful of His covenant, and will appear to fulfill His inviolable Word.~F.B.Meyer

There's a simplicity about God in working out His plans, yet a resourcefulness equal to any difficulty, and an unswerving faithfulness to His trusting child, and an unforgetting steadiness in holding to His purpose.  Through a fellow-prisoner, then a dream, He lifts Joseph from a prison to a premiership.  And the length of stay in the prison prevents dizziness in the premier.  It's safe to trust God's methods and to go by His clock. ~S.D. Gordon

Providence hath a thousand keys to open a thousand sundry doors for the deliverance of His own, when it is even come to a desperate case.  Let us be faithful; and care for our own part which is to suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there.  ~George MacDonald

Difficulty is the very atmosphere of miracle--it is a miracle in its first stage.  If it is to be a great miracle, the condition is not difficulty but impossiblility.  The clinging hand of His child makes a desperate situation a delight to Him.

Taken from Devotions for Morning and Evening (with Mrs. Charles E. Cowman)