“God my Maker, Who gives songs in the night” (Job 35:10)

Any sinner can sing in the day, when his spirit is alive to nature, and there’s a thousand things to do, but only saints can sincerely rejoice in the night of affliction, because they know by God’s gift of saving faith, “the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever” (1 John 2:17).

Only saints can “rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:16–18). They know, by faith, “all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28).

The SECRET POWER of Christ exists in saints who are resigned to God’s purpose, even if it means they will suffer affliction.

The ultimate example of this SECRET POWER is explained by the Apostle Paul.

He heard things in Paradise, and to dampen his pride, God gave him an affliction. Paul asked for it to be removed three times, and God only said, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” The Apostle Paul testified for all time: “Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong” (2 Corinthians 12:2–10).

This is impossible for sinners to understand. “The natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned … But we have the mind (the understanding) of Christ” (1 Corinthians 2:14–16).

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