To plead his Word and his psalms against our enemies. To place ourselves wholly at his mercy. And it was the beginning of the end, but not for us . What looked like the day of our destruction was in fact the dawn of our deliverance. Their end was our beginning.
Deliverance begins with suffering.
That morning ushered in a new reality, a new way of living that I wish even now I could daily hold onto. We lived in a different world, wholly depending on God moment by moment. We had no other choice, and no illusions. The terror and annihilation facing us were too overwhelming. What in other circumstances would be a virtue became for us a living necessity.