"I want to give you a word that helped me all yesterday and will help me today. It is the 'through' of Psalm 84:6 and of Isaiah 43:2, taken with Song of Songs 8:5.*
We are never staying in the valley or the rough waters; we are always only passing through them, just as the bride in the Song of Songs is seen coming up from the wilderness leaning on her Beloved.
So whatever the valley is, or however rough the waters are, we won't fear. Leaning on our Beloved we shall come up from the wilderness and, as Psalm 84:6 says, even use the valley as a well, make it a well. We shall find the living waters there and drink of them."
~ Amy Carmichael, from "Candles In The Dark"
* Psalm 84:6 - Passing through the valley of Weeping they make it a place of springs (A.V. - make it a well).
Isaiah 43:2 - When though passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee.
Song of Songs 8:5 - Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved?
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