Strength

"God is looking for men on whom He can put the weight of all His love and power and faithful promises.  God's engines are strong enough to draw any weight we attach to them.  Unfortunately the cable which we fasten to the engine is often too weak to hold the weight of our prayer; therefore God is drilling us, disciplining us to stability and certainty in the life of faith.  Let us learn our lessons and stand fast.  ~A.B.Simpson

God knows that you can stand that trial; He would not give it to you if you could not.  It is His trust in you that explains the trials of life, however bitter they may be.  God knows our strength, and He measures it to the last inch; and a trial was never given to any man that was greater than that man's strength, through God, to bear it.
Taken from todays Stream in the Desert

God Can Make...

The strain of my misery

Into the strength of His mercy

The storm of my feeling

Into the serenity of His faith

The wound of my hurt

Into the wonder of His healing

The bread of my adversity

Into the beauty of His adoration

The torment of my failure

Into the triumph of His favor

The guilt of my sin

Into the grace of His salvation

The confusion of my wandering

Into the clarity of His ways

The bitterness of my rebellion

Into the beauty of His righteousness

The groan of my wrestling

Into the glory of His resting

All things beautiful in His time
~Am