The Family Altar Audio Devotional - Day 189

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry. The face of the Lord is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all. (Psalm 34:15-19) 26 And if we will just draw from this conclusion this morning. And that’s what we’re here for. We’ve heard the Easter story, over and over, and read it back and forth; and today, on your radio broadcasts, you’ll hear different ministers approaching it. But what I thought, for my little group this morning, the Lord has given me, I would approach it from a different standpoint if I could, coming to a place of: Why do we come to these troubles? What makes these things come? Why should a Christian ever be perplexed? Why would not everything, just run perfect for a Christian? But it doesn’t, and we know it. 27 And sometimes we have more troubles when we become a Christian than we did when we were sinners. Course, It is written, “Many is the afflictions of the righteous, but God delivereth him from them all.” God promised many afflictions, strange feelings, and strange things that would be beyond our understanding, but it’s always done for our good. We just can’t understand it, because, if we did, then it would not be a faith to us; we would go with an understanding. But we do it, and we have it, and we believe by faith, His Word, that it’s going to work some good thing for us. If we could grasp that today, on this—this morning. If we could grasp that all of our troubles…And there is none of us immune from them. And if we could realize that those things are for our good! 28 It is written, in one of the Scriptures in the Bible, that, “Trials are brought upon us, are more precious to us than gold itself, for it is God giving us these trials.” After we become His property, our confession and our baptism, and our promise to walk in life for Him, then every trial that comes upon us is to perfect us for His glory. It’s to bring us to a place where God can make Himself more real to us than He was before the trial come. 29 I want to join in this morning with Job, to say that I’ve lived long enough to know that’s the Truth. I have seen it in my own life, that every time a great situation rises, that I can’t get around it, or under it or over it, God makes a way, and comes out glorious. I just wonder how His grace ever does it, but He does it. 30 And remember, in all these things, Satan tries to make us nervous, and upset us, to get us to think, “Oh, why did this happen? Why couldn’t I have been like this?” 31 A few days ago when I come out of the most prettiest, and most gorgeous place I ever saw in all my life, it was the great building of our brother, Oral Roberts. When I seen that solid marble, and not a window in it nowhere, but how it was fixed! And I’ve been in Hollywood and I’ve been in kings’ palaces, and I’ve been in everywhere that could be, hardly, around the world, and all the swanky, lovely places and home, but I never seen anything, any place, to compare, with it, nowhere at all. How the little aluminum wires weave the—the inside together, and, oh, I have never seen anything so gorgeous in all my life. When I walked through there, and took my hands and rubbed those pole pilasters, and—and the great granite; all in the form of a trinity of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, the—the carvings of it. All those things! I had just come from Brother Tommy Osborn’s, and seen his great, mighty work there for the Lord. 60-0417s - "I Know" Rev. William Marrion Branham