[Songs in the Night - January 11]
Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel, and afterward receive me to glory. Psalm 73:24
THE humble and believing children of God will
realize that while they may not be able at all times to
understand the Lord's ways in all his dealings, they
can know of his wisdom, love, and care, and they can
therefore trust him where they cannot trace him.
We
should not expect to be able always to comprehend the
divine wisdom, which is so much beyond our own; yet
we can often see it afterward.
Sometimes his discipline
may be severe, and by no means easy to bear, yet
"afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness."
After the bitter comes the sweet; so let us take
the bitter patiently, and rejoice in hope of the sure
fulfilment of all the exceeding great and precious
promises to be realized in due time by those who patiently
continue in welldoing—in submitting without
reserve to the providence of God, to the guidance with
his counsel. Z'93-232 R1562:2 (Hymn 242)