The Mighty Composer

I was reading "Secure in the Everlasting Arms" by Elisabeth Elliot today, and the chapter I read focused on the "blank moments" in life. It's easy to be driven by the exciting moments in life, and feel worthless when things seem to be neutral. In times like these we become anxious for God to act, anxious for circumstances to change...unsatisfied, discontent. She compared these moments to rests in music. Here are a few quotes I really like:

"There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody, the music is broken off here and there by 'rests', and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure - sickness, disappointed plans, frustrated efforts - and makes us a sudden pause in the choral hymn of our lives and we lament that our voices must be silent, and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. How does the msucian read the rest? See him beat time with unvarying count and catch up the next note true and steady, as if no breaking place had come between. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. But be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the 'rests'. They are not to be slurred over, not to be omitted, not to destroy the melody, not to change the keynote. If we look up, God Himself will beat time for us. With the eye on Him, we shall strike the next note full and clear." - John Ruskin

"It's His song, not mine, that I'm here to sing. It's His will, not mine, that I'm here to do. Let me focus my vision unwaverlingly on Him who alone knows the complete score, 'and in the night His song shall be with me' (Psalm 42:8)." - Elisabeth Elliot

God is good. He is at work even when we don't feel Him or can't see the immediate effects.

Verse of the Day: "For the Lord God is our sun and our shield. He gives us grace and glory. The Lord will withhold no good thing from those who do what is right." - Psalm 84:11