IT is happy for our souls, and healthful too, to be occupied with God's purpose for us. Each heart knows its own bitterness, but "God is faithful," and what a cheer this is to our hearts! We need this cheer as pilgrims passing through the rough places of this world; we need to remember that we are, as it were, booked for glory. The moment Israel left Egypt, Canaan was their issue; so all who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, God will confirm unto the end, blameless, in the day of Jesus Christ our Lord. The cross and the glory go together; we have to say to the one; we have the other.