If you could have your desired goals suddenly become a part of your experience, what kind of an individual would you like to be and what would you like to attain?
According to Isaiah the long-awaited Messiah would come "to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;.
The Psalmist was rejoicing in the power of God to still the noisy waters, the confused, senseless clamor of the carnal, or mortal, mind, when he sang, "The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.
How often we have sighed at a seeming lack of progress or been tempted to believe that some adverse circumstance had no right to appear in our experience! But if we have been trying sincerely to do the right thing, have we not invariably emerged from the seemingly adverse experience with a renewed awareness that, as Paul expressed it, "All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose"?