Extract: Sorrow

The Lord allows His children to find by sorrowful experience the fruit of His own plans, and though the purpose of His love remains the same, they must be reached in circumstances which declare that He Who blesses, and addeth no sorrow to it, has had to deal with the will of the one whom He blesses.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.” Proverbs 9:1010The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10).