Until the Lord Administer Comfort, Who Knows How and What Relief To Give To the Weary Traveller

December 9.

For this shall every one that is godly pray unto Thee in a time when Thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

PSALM 32, verse 6.


Be not o'ermastered by thy pain,
But cling to God, thou shall not fall;
The floods sweep over thee in vain,
Thou yet shall rise above them all;
For when thy trial seems too hard to bear,
Lo! God, thy King, hath granted all thy prayer:
Be thou content.

P. GERHARDT.

It is the Lord's mercy, to give thee breathings
after life, and cries unto Him against that which
oppresseth thee; and happy wilt thou be, when
He shall fill thy soul with that which He hath
given thee to breathe after. Be not troubled;
for if troubles abound, and there be tossing,
and storms, and tempests, and no peace, nor
anything visible left to support; yet, lie still, and
sink beneath, till a secret hope stir, which will
stay the heart in the midst of all these; until the
Lord administer comfort, who knows how and
what relief to give to the weary traveller, that
knows not where it is, nor which way to look,
nor where to expect a path.

I. PENINGTON.