[Songs in the Night - April 5]
The Lord will command his loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me. Psalm 42:8
IF WE are not ready to praise God where we are,
and with our conditions and circumstances as they are,
we should not be likely to praise him if we were differently
circumstanced and our conditions just those
which now seem to us most desirable.
Daniel could
sleep better in the den of lions than Darius in the royal
palace; he who could not find rest in a lion's den, when
that was the place for him, could not gain rest by a
mere removal to a palace.
It is the man's self which
must be changed, not his circumstances or his possessions,
in order to his having a heart overflowing
with joy and praise. Z'02-381 R3123:4 (Hymn 236)