O Lord! we would delight in Thee,
And on Thy care depend,
To Thee in every trouble flee,
Our safe, unfailing Friend.
When human cisterns all are dried,
Thy fullness is the same;
May we with this be satisfied,
And glory in Thy name.
Ryland
Which would you rather have: a smooth path, or a path so rough that the Lord is compelled to show His face to you every step of the way?
Christ wept, but He wept as in the sight of God. . . . Let us see to it that the sorrows we have flow from Himself and flow toward Him in God. They will be all the deeper, I am sure, but what is from God and to God is sustained by God, and so we can give thanks always for all things.
“What pleases Thee, Lord, pleases me” is a grand motto for rest and peace and quiet and for the stopping of all repining about what we have not got.
It is a great thing for each to be . . . ready to act on and from his own responsibility, but never going beyond that which he sees to be his own duty and never acting under the light which others have. . . . I would rather act under God’s measure of light vouchsafed to me, or not act, because I had none such, than be the one to carry out the mind of any man, without my being assured his mind was God’s mind for me.
More and more does it become clear to me that “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with Mine eye” is the only proper and safe guide for us.
How far is Christ practically formed in our hearts and minds . . . so that His thoughts are our thoughts, His cares our cares, His subjects of interest our subjects of interest, and none other?
You would not be easily startled by events if you saw all that you have in Christ to enable you to meet everything calmly.
Has the restorative power of the Lord’s coming got possession of your hearts?
No sin the believer brings to God that when it comes to be weighed, is not outweighed by the blood.
God would have us to . . . count it a peculiar privilege to be wholehearted for the Son of His love.
Remember that there is no path for us smoother or broader than the path of the Son of Man while in the world.
You may have gone through deep waters and many a furrow grief may have left on your forehead, but as you passed through the trouble, which did you find most — the trial or Christ who passed through it with you?
I judge that the great thing is to own God and be still. “I was dumb . . . Thou didst it,” said David. . . . There is rest in this —giving to God His own place.
I am sure it is better for us . . . for divine wisdom and love to sit at the helm and decide for us than for us to have to decide.
As to heaven, all is right, ready for us, and happier they that are there than we that are here. The good Lord settle for us the times of our going thither and keep us while here ready and willing to slip in at any moment.
T