"The Valley of the Shadow" by Oswald Chambers
'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.' (Psalm 23:4)
'Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine. . . ?' [Rom 8:35] Can we remain true to the vocation of a saint in tribulation? Think of the thousands who have had to go through tribulation during these past years -- every human hope taken from them; but yet the saint with an amazing hopefulness remains radiant in the thick of it.
'. . . or nakedness, or peril, or sword?' In our own day all these things are dastardly realities. Can we maintain our vocation as a saint there? Life was going on all right when suddenly we were struck by a psychological nor'wester! Paul says we have to maintain our vocation in the midst of the most desperate things that can happen in individual life. (from the book "Christian Disciplines")