How helpful and instructive it is to retrace the ways of God with us. When we are at last “settled in Him,” as our sure resource, if we were more careful to observe the manner and links of God’s dealings with us, we should find that, though there may be a suspension in sorrow, and often a long interval of repose, yet that trials are continued very much in the same line, until the desired effect is produced, discipline having done its work, we find that fullness of joy is our portion according to the heart of God for us.
God is the only true rest, and resource in sorrow. The heart alone and near God knows that He is its strength and its portion forever.