Sorrow: God's Tool

Come, sit, and enjoy a cup of tea or coffee in the comfort of the Lord:  "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking be put away from him, with all malice."  Ephesians  4:31

    "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path."  Psalm  142:3

                                                        I walked a mile with Pleasure,
                                                           She chatted all the way,
                                                        But left me none the wiser,
                                                            For all she had to say.
                                                         I walked a mile with Sorrow,
                                                            And ne'er a word said she;
                                                         But, oh, the things I learned from her
                                                             When Sorrow walked with me!

     Our greatest difficulties usually turn out to be our greatest opportunities!  Suffering and glory, testing and usefulness are always associated in the Scripture.  Henry Ward Beecher points out discerningly that  "The steel that has suffered most is the best.  It has been in the furnace again and again; it has been on the anvil; it has been tight in the jaws of the vise; it has felt the teeth of the rasp; it has been ground by emery; it has been heated and hammered and filed until it does not know itself, but finally it comes out a splendid knife!  If men only knew it, what are called their 'misfortunes' are God's best blessings, for they are the molding influences which give them shapeliness and edge, and durability and power."

     Are you almost overwhelmed?  Is your spirit gravely troubled?  Do not despair; God knows all about it, and is in his trial.  The path, though dark to you, is plain to Him.  Take courage, trust His good leading, and you will "be enlarged in distress."

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