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Daily Devotionals
Our Daily Homily - Volume 2
Psalms 104:3—Who maketh the clouds his chariot.
As I write these words on the bosom of the broad Atlantic, there is little for the eye to rest on but the heaving waters through which we are swiftly cutting our path, and the expanse of sky through which float the great piles of cloud. It is pleasant to think of them as the chariots of God; the heavens beyond are the curtains of his tent; this wind is his swift-stepping messenger; this exquisite light glancing on sky and sea is his garment, hardly dense enough to veil his visible Presence. O Nature, how can we do other than love thee, since the Being of our God is so closely mingled with thy hues and forms!
How often God visits us in a chariot of cloud! We look up and see the looming darkness, and forebode evil. But if we could look down, as from a seat in the heavenlies, we should behold our God sitting within, radiant with golden glory, and hastening to bless. In dry, waterless lands, the rain-bearing clouds are signally the chariots of blessing.
"Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take;
The clouds ye so much dread
Are big with mercy, and shall break
In blessings on your head."
When the soul, says one, is born again into the Divine light, she becometh a humble, loving, winning creature, that beareth every cross and reproach, that regardeth no insult, either from man or devil, that places her love and confidence in the heart of God, full of joy, fed by the Word of God, bathed in a smile of heavenly triumph. But the reason for this is in the absolute confidence that God is in all our life, and that
"The cloud which spreads above,
And veileth love
Itself is Love,"
