[Manna - April 29]
He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him. Psalm 91:15
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. Z.'96-31 R1937:5