Billows

I've been reading the biography of Oswald Chambers for a while now. It is so challenging that I read it for a few days and then have to put it down and think about everything he has said.

It's been such a lesson in patience and trusting the Father. There were so many times in his life that he proceeded not knowing where the Father would take him and not knowing what the next thing would be. He just trusted.

"They had no house, no furniture, and no money. And beyond the month of October, they had no firm plans. Instead of anxiously pacing the deck, Biddy opened a book while Oswald reclined in a wooden chaise lounge and gazed at the rolling sea. God was in charge and tomorrow was in His hands. Oswald's approach to the future was simple, "Trust God and do the next thing." What duty lay nearest at hand? Take a nap. Wrapping a blanket around himself, he closed his eyes and went to sleep."



"I have had a great and blessed time before God in prayer this morn. It came so clearly that in all ventures for God I had to go in fath and now I do the same. I have never far-seeing plans, only confident trust. On the top of those very billows which look as if they would overwhlem us walks the son of God!"