Bearing All These With Patience and Resignation to the Will of God
November 30.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him
for the help of His countenance.
PSALM 42, verse. 5.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
2 CORINTHIANS 4, verse 8.
Oh, my soul, why art thou vexed?
Let things go e'en as they will;
Though to thee they seem perplexed,
Yet His order they fulfil.
A. H. FRANCKE.
The vexation, restlessness, and impatience which
small trials cause, arise wholly from our ignorance
and want of self-control. We may be thwarted
and troubled, it is true, but these things put us
into a condition for exercising patience and meek
submission, and the self-abnegation wherein
alone the fulness of God is to be found.
DE RENTY.
Every day deny yourself some satisfaction; bearing
all the inconveniences of life (for the love of God),
cold, hunger, restless nights, ill health, unwelcome
news, the faults of servants, contempt, ingratitude
of friends, malice of enemies, calumnies, our own
failings, lowness of spirits, the struggle in
overcoming our corruptions; bearing all these with
patience and resignation to the will of God. Do all
this as unto God, with the greatest privacy.
THOMAS WILSON.
Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
and why art thou disquieted in me?
hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him
for the help of His countenance.
PSALM 42, verse. 5.
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed.
2 CORINTHIANS 4, verse 8.
Oh, my soul, why art thou vexed?
Let things go e'en as they will;
Though to thee they seem perplexed,
Yet His order they fulfil.
A. H. FRANCKE.
The vexation, restlessness, and impatience which
small trials cause, arise wholly from our ignorance
and want of self-control. We may be thwarted
and troubled, it is true, but these things put us
into a condition for exercising patience and meek
submission, and the self-abnegation wherein
alone the fulness of God is to be found.
DE RENTY.
Every day deny yourself some satisfaction; bearing
all the inconveniences of life (for the love of God),
cold, hunger, restless nights, ill health, unwelcome
news, the faults of servants, contempt, ingratitude
of friends, malice of enemies, calumnies, our own
failings, lowness of spirits, the struggle in
overcoming our corruptions; bearing all these with
patience and resignation to the will of God. Do all
this as unto God, with the greatest privacy.
THOMAS WILSON.
