Tuesday, June 25th
Day 59
But I want you to know, brethren,
that the things which have happened to me
have actually turned out for the furtherance of the gospel.
Philippians 1:12
While the yoke of the Lord is easy and His burden light,
nevertheless the furrow that He calls us to undertake is not always by any means easy plowing.
There is no yoke that fits so smoothly and handily as His,
but there is no work that requires more steady trudging and persistent faithfulness than His.
Three stages of that work are strikingly set forth by Hudson Taylor when he says:
“Commonly there are three stages in work for God:
Imposible, Difficult, Done!
-Springs In The Valley
We say that there ought to be no sorrow,
but there is sorrow,
and we have to receive ourselves in its fires.
If we try and evade sorrow, refuse to lay our account with it, we are foolish.
Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life; it is no use saying sorrow ought not to be.
Sin and sorrow and suffering are,
and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness, but it does not always make a man better.
Suffering either will give me myself or it destroys myself,
You cannot receive your self in success, you lose your head;
you cannot receive yourself in monotony, you grouse.
The way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.
Why it should be so is another matter,
but that it is so
is true in the Scriptures and in human experience.
. . . . . . . . . .
If you receive yourself in the fires of sorrow,
God will make you nourishment for other people.
-Oswald Chambers
Lord, This is my life. It wasn’t my choice but I can accept it because You are with me in this.
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