Streams in the desert

Someone shared an excerpt from L. B. E. Cowman's book "Streams in the Desert" on Instagram,and I thought it was so beautiful and powerful that I want to share it too.

There is a story about a woman who dreams that God passes by 3 women. The first 2 receive His affection and attention, but the third does not. The dreamer thinks that God must really love the others, but the third must have angered God deeply. But God tells her that the first 2 women needed His constant reminders so that they wouldn't stray.

"The third, whom I seemed not to notice, and even to neglect, has faith and love of the finest quality, and her I am training by quick and drastic processes for the highest and holiest service. She knows Me so intimately, and trusts Me so utterly, that she is independent of words or looks or any outward intimation of My approval.
She is not dismayed nor discouraged by any circumstance through which I arrange that she shall pass; she trusts Me when sense and reason and every finer instinct of the natural heart would rebel;--because she knows that I am working in her for eternity, and that what I do, though she knows not the explanation now, she will understand hereafter.
I am silent in My love, because I love beyond the power of words to express, or of human hearts to understand, and also for your sakes that you may learn to love and trust Me in Spirit-taught, spontaneous response to My love, without the spur of anything outward to call it forth."

He will do marvels if you learn the mystery of His silence and praise Him for every time He withdraws His gifts that you may better know and love the Giver.