" . . . the lame take the prey." Isaiah 33:23
HUNTER BAGS DEER WHILE SITTING IN A WHEELCHAIR. Thus ran the heading in the newspaper. A man very fond of hunting, broke his leg just before the season opened. Knowing how badly he felt about missing the hunt, his friends arranged to take him along in a wheelchair, so he could at least enjoy the camp life. While the men left to take their stations he sat disconsolately in his chair before the window, when lo and behold! a big buck stepped into the clearing! He opened the window, wheeled to the corner for a rifle and shot the buck through the open window, while sitting in a wheelchair. His companions came home, tired, ragged and disappointed - empty handed.
As I read the article the above text immediately came to mind, " . . . the lame take the prey." What seemed like a misfortune had its compensation. How often we must get in a wheelchair to get the "buck." What seems like calamity and misfortune often carries the greatest blessing.
Are you laid aside? Have your dreams been shattered? Have you met with disappointment, sickness, reverses, even bereavement? It is not without a purpose (Romans 8:28), and you will have its compensation. If you are a child of God, you may be sure that for every hard experience God has a reason and a compensation. Good sailors are made in storms. Heroes become such only by meeting crises. There is no fruit without clouds!
"Bread For Each Day"
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