From Devotions for Morning and Evening with Mrs Charles E. Cowman December 9 Morning - For this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a (eternal) weight of glory. 2Cor. 4:17. Is achieving for us... The question is repeatedly asked - Why is the life of man drenched with so much blood, blistered with so many tears? The answer is to be found in the word achieving; these things are achieving for us something precious. They are teaching us not only the way to victory, but better still the laws of victory. There is a compensation in every sorrow, and the sorrow is working out the compensation. It is the cry of the dear old hymn: Nearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee, Een tho it be a cross that raiseth me. Joy sometimes needs pain to give it birth. Fanny Crosby could never have written her beautiful hymn, I shall see Him face-to-face, were it not for the fact that she had never looked upon the green fields nor the evening sunset nor the kindly twinkle in her mothers eye. It was the loss of her own vision that helped her to gain her remarkable spiritual discernment. It is comforting to know that sorrow tarried only for the night; it takes its leave in the morning. A thunderstorm is very brief when put alongside the long summer day. Weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh in the morning. From Songs in the Night. There is a peace that cometh after sorrow, Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled; A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow, But calmly on a tempest that it stilled. A peace that lives not now in joys excesses, Nor in the happy life of love secure; But in the unerring strength the heart possesses, Of conflicts won while learning to endure. A peace there is, in sacrifice secluded, A life subdued, from will and passion free; Tis not the peace that over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane. This post is for Julie Warnke Seledic and her family today and any others who have faced unimaginable loss. Look to Jesus the author and perfector of your faith as He will deepen your faith, bringing faith, hope, love and yes, even joy -from this sorrow. His eternal weight of glory will come to rest within you. My love and prayers are with you.
Posted on: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 17:37:11 +0000
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