"He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me
beside quiet waters" Psalm 23:2
A young Christian who had been for many weeks in a hospital,
undergoing a painful operation and then slowly recovering, wrote me in the days
of her convalescence, "I have found my little white bed here in the hospital
a bit of God's green pasture." Not only had it proved a place of rest and
peace to her--but also a place of spiritual
refreshment.
The hard things are not meant to mar our life--they are meant to make it all the braver, the worthier, the nobler. Adversities and misfortunes are meant to sweeten our spirits, not to make them sour and bitter.
"Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." Psalm 119:67
The hard things are not meant to mar our life--they are meant to make it all the braver, the worthier, the nobler. Adversities and misfortunes are meant to sweeten our spirits, not to make them sour and bitter.
"Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I keep Your word." Psalm 119:67
"It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I may
learn Your statutes." Psalm 119:71
"I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in
faithfulness You have afflicted me." Psalm 119:75
(J.R. Miller, "The Glory
of the Commonplace")
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