Kindred Spirit...

I feel like Anne (of Green Gables...One of my favourite books/movies!) when I talk about kindred spirit, but it's pretty rare when I find something that hits my heart to the core...so I must write it on this blog. It's been pretty difficult for me lately, because it's getting lonelier and lonelier as I get closer to Him. Maybe it's me. Maybe it's because I'm coming to realize that following Christ requires for us to walk the narrow road. Although there are so many people around me, I find myself unable to find people who can truly understand and relate...

I found a kindred spirit while reading Hudson Taylor's Spiritual Secrets. I was not only encouraged greatly, but challenged to continue on this trek up the narrow road:

...And how blessedly He did read me I can never never tell. It was like a continuation of some of my earlier experiences at home. My faith was not untried; it often, often failed, and I was so sorry and ashamed of the failure to trust such a Father. But Oh! I was learning to know Him. I would not even then have missed the trial. He became so near, so real, so intimate! The occasional difficulty about funds never came from an insufficient supply for personal needs, but in consequence of ministering to the wants of scores of the hungry and dying around us. And trials far more searching in other ways quite eclipsed these difficulties and being deeper brought forth in consequence richer fruits (87-88).

The "richer fruits" I doubt I'll be able to see when my eyes become focused on Him. Following Him is the reward in and of itself. The other blessings are just the icing on the cake...