I recently bought "The Christian's Secret of a Happy Life" by Hannah Whitall Smith. I love her writing! She was a deeply spiritual woman with great insight into living a consecrated Godly life.
I read this little bit included in a short biography of her life (included in the book) and thought it was very good and so posting it here hoping it might be of benefit to someone. God bless!
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But ………. There Is God!
Hannah Whitall Smith one time had a grievous problem she could not resolve, so she went to a lady who she considered to be deeply spiritual, and poured out her problems to her. The woman listened patiently until she had finished. Hannah waited expectantly for “sympathy and consideration,” but the woman simply said, “Yes, all you say may be very true, but then, in spite of it all, there is God.”
Hannah was perplexed and tried to make the woman understand that she really did have a problem. After listening to much more, the woman virtually dismissed Hannah’s concerns and stated, “Oh yes, I did understand, but then, as I tell you, there is God.”
Hannah could not induce the woman to say anything else, and left disappointed. She returned a few days later to go through the same thing again. And she returned many times, always receiving the same answer.
“At last,” Hannah wrote about the experience, “because the woman said it so often and seemed so sure, I began dimly to wonder whether after all God might not be enough, even for my need, overwhelming and peculiar as I felt it to be. From wondering I came gradually to believing that, being my Creator and redeemer, He must be enough. At last a conviction burst upon me that He really was enough, and my eyes were opened to the fact of the absolute and utter all-sufficiency of God.
“My troubles disappeared like magic, and I did nothing but wonder how I could have been such an idiot as to be troubled by them, when all the while there was God, the Almighty and all seeing God, the God who created me, and was therefore on my side, and eager to care for me and help me. I had found out that God was enough, and my soul was at rest.”
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