A CURE FOR GLOOM

A CURE FOR GLOOM

Do you ever get gloomy? I will tell you a cure for it. When you go out at night, what do you look for - ^[p. 444] the clouds? No, you say, I look for the moon. So I would say to the gloomy believer, look for Christ. He is the triumphant One; look for the Mediator between you and God! “The Lord ... hath triumphed gloriously”. (Exodus 15: 1) “He hath put a new song in my mouth”. (Psalm 40: 3) He hath “put gladness in my heart”. (Psalm 4: 7)

When the heart lays hold of truth, even though it knows not why, with a tenacity which will buy it and sell it not, we may rest assured it will be more fully unfolded, “For he that hath, to him shall be given”. (Matthew 13: 12)

The best way to correct a failing in your brother is to be in yourself the living expression of the virtue he lacks.