It is always our blessed privilege to carry our sorrows and
vexations to the Lord,
For He knows
How to steal the bitter from life's woes.
He does it by showing us, through experience, the vanity of all
earthly things and their utter inability to satisfy the soul's
cravings, or to comfort the wounded spirit. Then comes the
thought that however vexing our experiences, they will soon be
over; and if we permit them to do so, they will only work out in
us the peaceable fruits of righteousness, and develop in us
strong and noble characters, disciplined to thorough
self-control, thoughtful consideration, patient endurance of
affliction and loving loyalty and faithfulness and trust in God
It is the privilege of Christians to pray to God through Christ, to thus have access to God in prayer at any time; and to them is given the assurance of a gracious answer. God also is with them in all afflictions with His sympathy, love and help. His deliverance out of the trouble is sure, when the latter has accomplished its purpose. Amid the trouble He is their support, and the highest honors possible of attainment for such He has in reservation for them in His glorious Kingdom.
REPRINTS
Job 14:14, 15; Psa. 27:8; 50:15; 145:18; Matt. 6:6; 7:7, 8; John 16:23-26; Dan. 12:1-3; Psa. 21:2, 4; 107:6, 7; 2 Tim. 4:8, 18; Rev. 2:7, 10, 17, 26, 27; 3:4, 5, 12, 21.
