Streams in the Desert - Oct. 5

"Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?" (Song of Solomon 8:5).

 

Some one gained a good lesson from a Southern prayer meeting. A colored brother asked the Lord for various blessings -- as you and I do, and thanked the Lord for many already received—as you and I do; but he closed with this unusual petition: "And, O Lord, support us! Yes support us Lord on every leanin' side!" Have you any leaning sides? This humble man's prayer pictures them in a new way and shows the Great Supporter in a new light also. He is always walking by the Christian, ready to extend His mighty arm and steady the weak one on "every leanin' side."

 

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"Child of My love, lean hard,

And let Me feel the pressure of thy care;

I know thy burden, child. I shaped it;

Poised it in Mine Own hand; made no proportion

In its weight to thine unaided strength,

For even as I laid it on, I said,

'I shall be near, and while she leans on Me,

This burden shall be Mine, not hers;

So shall I keep My child within the circling arms

 

Of My Own love.' Here lay it down, nor fear

To impose it on a shoulder which upholds

he government of worlds. Yet closer come:

Thou art not near enough. I would embrace thy

care; So I might feel My child reposing on My breast.

Thou lovest Me? I knew it. Doubt not then;

But Wing Me, lean hard."