Quotes of Encouragement and Challenge from Green Leaf in Drought Time

These are quotes from the book “Green Leaf in Drought Time” by Isabel Kuhn, written in 1957, that we have found encouraging and challenging!

“God does not waste suffering, nor does He discipline out of caprice. If He plows, it is because He purposes a crop.”

“How good it is that our salvation does not depend on our feelings! The Lord IS near whether we feel His presence or not. Christ’s blood is sufficient for our sin’s debt whether we ‘feel’ the flush of glowing faith or are shaken with fears.”

Psalms 66:10—13 refuse to question or complain even though the days may seem to have no sense in them.

“Meek endurance and meek obedience, the acceptance of His dealings of whatever complexion they are and however they may tear and desolate our hearts, without murmuring, without sulking, without rebellion or resistance, is the deepest conception of the meekness which Christ pronounced blessed.” Alexander MacLaren

“The wonderful loving Father not only had love for His Son, but also had strength to help His Son. But He did not spare His Son. Why should we expect Him to spare us, both in the great sorrow of our hearts, the unutterable longings, and our present situation. Oh, may we prove trustworthy sons!” Wilda Matthews

“They were trusted to trust without receiving what others received. They were trusted not to be offended.”

“5 Smooth stones that will take down any giant. God is! God has! God can! God will! God does!” Charles Fox

FOUR ANCHORS – Acts 27:27-29 (Just as those who were with the apostle Paul sought help to escape destruction and death from the raging seas, we must rely on our anchors in our time of distress.)

1. Say, He brought me here. It is by His will I am in this straight place and in that fact I will rest.

2. He will keep me here in His love and give me grace to behave as His child.

3. Then He will make the trial a blessing, teaching me the lessons He intends for me to learn.

4. In His good time He can bring me out again- how and when He knows.

So let me say, I am (1) here by God’s appointment, (2) in His keeping, (3) under His training, (4) for His time.

“Not to receive it joyfully was to deny the Lord before men. The Son had left heaven, not submitting to do the will of God, but delighting.” …They had been acting like servants who don’t want to do it but have to because they can’t get out of it. What a different attitude was the Son’s! …Phil. 2:13 – “for it is God Himself whose power creates within you both the Desire and the Power to execute His will” Weymouth

Ps. 40:8 – all of Ps 40 is great

Is. 58:11

“They were under the conviction that they were not the victims of a mistake, but His children definitely led by Him into a net. This gave them the meekness to stay in.”