MEDITATION FOR TODAY DECEMBER 2ND. 2014 Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Paul did not take pleasure in infirmities. He tells us that he was anxious to get rid of the infirmity that clouded his life. But when he saw that God supplied the grace, he began to love the supply better than freedom from infirmitiy. He saw that it was better to have darkness with stars brought out by it, than all sunshine and no stars; that the cold winds of winter are as necessary for the worlds development as the cheerful warmth of spring and summer; that the mantle of snow is as good for earth as its mantle of grass and flowers. But for the snow mantle, the mantle of flowers might not be. When a man learns that Gods strenght is perfected through his infirmity, necessities, persecutions and distresses, he will begin to welcome them as an angel sent from heaven to minister to him. Any man can sing by day; but only the one whose heart has been tuned by the gracious hand of God, can sing in the darkness. The things of earth may satisfy for the hours of prosperity; but only the peace of God can give gladness in the darkness of adversity. God gives joy in sorrow; and when the sad one sings through his tears, then the Lord comes out to him with new and more tender assurances, so that by his very hymn he is made more gladsome. The one which is born of trust, rises in rapture. MEDITATION: A dreary month of weeping of cloud and fog and rain, is sorrowful December, and all the winds complain. The trees are bare and flowers are gone, and birds have hushed all song, and days are short and sunless, and nights are dark and long. But let us wait in patience, the days are swift to go, and even sorrow does not stay long on the earth below; some days must be for weeping, but God and heaven remain, and after nights of darkness, the sun will shine again. Amen.
Posted on: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 04:47:54 +0000
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