Her Soul Was Kept in Perfect Peace

March 11.

Cast thy burden upon the Lord,
and He shall sustain thee:
He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.

PSALM 55, verse 22.


Now our wants and burdens leaving
To His care who cares for all,
Cease we fearing, cease we grieving,
At His touch our burdens fall.

S. LONGFELLOW.


The circumstances of her life she could not alter,
but she took them to the Lord, and handed
them over into His management; and then
she believed that He took it, and she left all
the responsibility and the worry and anxiety
with Him. As often as the anxieties returned
she took them back; and the result was that,
although the circumstances remained unchanged,
her soul was kept in perfect peace in the midst
of them. And the secret she found so effectual
in her outward affairs, she found to be still
more effectual in her inward ones, which were
in truth even more utterly unmanageable.
She abandoned her whole self to the Lord,
with all that she was and all that she had; and,
believing that He took that which she had
committed to Him, she ceased to fret and
worry, and her life became all sunshine
in the gladness of belonging to Him.

H. W. SMITH.