“I will be with Him in trouble” (Ps. xci. 15).
The question often comes, “Why didn’t He help me sooner!” It is not His
order. He must first adjust you to the situation and cause you to learn
your lesson from it. His promise is, “I will be with him in trouble; I
will deliver him and honor him.” He must be with you in the trouble first
until you grow quiet. Then He will take you out of it. This will not come
till you have stopped being restless and fretful about it and become calm
and trustful. Then He will say, “It is enough.”
God uses trouble to teach His children precious lessons. They are intended
to educate us. When their good work is done a glorious recompense will
come to us through them. There is a sweet joy and opportunity in them. He
does not regard them as difficulties but as opportunities. They have come
to give God a greater interest in you, and to show how He can deliver you
from them. We cannot have a mercy worth praising God for without
difficulty. God is as deep, and long, and high, as our little world of
circumstances.