Adversity
Quotes from the 19th century
I know there is the Lord's bosom for the reception of every care and every anxiety.
We ought to be patient, for He is the doer of everything; and when we are not patient we really find fault with Him and His doing.
He is a great giver, and if He hides His hand from giving today, tomorrow He oft gives two-fold.
He that made all things, and upholds all things, is equal to, and a match for, any and every contingency that can befall any between Calvary and the cloud of glory.
With a heart broken, and a will subdued, I have given thanks for sorrows in which the iron entered into my own soul. I say not with levity, but as before God, "Thou knowest I could not have lived through this and that if Thou hadst not given me grace to receive it at Thy hand, and to find that out of the eater came forth meat."
"Our Jesus hath done all things well" has long been our song. And so it must be, whatever we may feel; for if the Father of an only-begotten Son settles everything for us which is for the glory of that Son, surely all is well.
He loves you and wants His will to be all your satisfaction; wants you to find your all in Him and in His Son ... He thinks that if all His pleasure is found in the Son of His love He can make that Son of His love enough for you when all else is gone. He so loves you in Him that He is making every affection in you, every thought in you, to find the Lord Jesus as its centre.
His love broke my heart to make room for Christ, and I know it was love that did it. Till then I never knew either the creature's need of Christ, nor Christ's sufficiency for a broken heart.
(Footprints for Pilgrims)
