| The Ministry of Comfort |
Chapter 7 |
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That is the way to find God’s comfort. He has a right to take from us what he will, for all our joys and treasures belong to Him and are only lent to us for a time. It was in love that He gave them to us; it is in love that He takes them away. When we cease our struggle, and in faith and confidence submit our will to His, peace flows into our heart and we are comforted.
Thus it is that the secret of divine comfort is found in complete, quiet, and joyful yielding to the will of God. It does not make the pain of the sorrow less; it does not give back the loved one who has been called away, but it brings the heart into full accord with God, and thus gives sweet peace. “Not my will, but Thine,” ends all strife and struggle, and the soul rests in undisturbed calm on the bosom of God. We do not try to understand, we ask no more questions; we simply trust and leave all in our Father’s hands, and are strangely, sweetly comforted.
“We see not, know not; all our way
Is night; with Thee alone is day.
From out the torrent’s troubled drift,
Above the storm our prayer we lift,
They will be done!
“We take with solemn thankfulness
Our burden up, nor ask it less;
And count it joy that even we
May suffer, serve, or wait for Thee.
Thy will be done!”
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