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What do you do when you find yourself without vision, without direction or enthusiasm? There is no uplift. Many of us find ourselves like current-less waters, like parched dry ground. It seems that taking that step into the unseen is hard. The step into devotion, into prayer is strangely hard.
It takes the Almighty grace of God to take the next step when there is no vision or leading. It takes a far more conscious drawing of God than each one of those steps. Even giving a Bible study is easier than going into the working of the unseen.
When I have gotten into that valley, there is a conditioned perseverance. I make myself get up and go up to the Mountain of Prayer, I open my Bible and read it still. Do I allow myself to rest? Yes, as Elizabeth Elliot said, "Rest is the weapon of God. Satan likes to wear out the saints, he does not like rested ones." So I take my rest when necessary.
But there is a common ground war we are all fighting. Fighting for our unsaved people we love. Fighting for good health, fighting for finances, fighting the onslaughts of Satan coming from every direction. But we are not fighting this unseen fight alone.
Listen to Charles Spurgeon's last recorded words from June 7, 1891:
“Those who have no master are slaves to themselves. Depend upon it, you will either serve Satan or Christ, either self or the Saviour. You will find sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hard masters; but if you wear the livery of Christ, you will find him so meek and lowly of heart that you will find rest unto your souls.
He is the most magnanimous of captains. There never was his like among the choicest of princes. He is always to be found in the thickest part of the battle. When the wind blows cold he always takes the bleak side of the hill. The heaviest end of the cross lies ever on his shoulders. If he bids us carry a burden, he carries it also. If there is anything that is gracious, generous, kind, and tender, yea lavish and superabundant in love, you always find it in him.
These 40 years and more have I served him, blessed be his name! and I have had nothing but love from him. I would be glad to continue yet another 40 years in the same dear service here below if so it pleased him. His service is life, peace, joy. Oh, that you would enter on it at once!"
