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REPOSE IN THE STORM

I can find no comfort but in looking to the Lord. The affliction is not to remove her from testimony here, as is the case with some; it is, I believe, to make her and us who are attached to her more for Him here. “We which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus’ sake” (2 Corinthians 4: 11) — is the word before my mind. If you would have suffered yourself to save her from suffering, how much more may you and I count on the Lord’s love for her, for it is vastly greater than ours. Here we must rest. The Lord only can pull down and displace the old man, as He only can erect and establish the new. Blessed Lord! “weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Psalm 30: 5). I have been lately interested in the power of the Holy Spirit in us, making us superior to suffering in the body. May the Lord make this good now to each of you.

I am thankful that you both are so much on my heart at this time. The Lord was in far deeper suffering. He bare our sicknesses. My desire for you is, that you may ^[p. 182] be so sustained by Him, or rather by His personal nearness to you in sympathy, that you may be in real repose in the storm.

If your suffering has made you such an object of solicitude to me, how infinitely more to our blessed Lord. What a comfort! Thank God and take courage.

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