SORROW

SORROW

I can truly enter into your sorrow, a sorrow that, as connected with this scene, will never cease; and yet I rejoice that you are able to see the Lord’s hand and mercy in the stroke - that you have songs in the night. As you say, What a ruin it all is!

He rolls in death on one side, that life may be more manifested on the other. To survive death and to go on without fainting is great grace.

Every one can go on when everything is bright; but when a child is fading away as a flower you have cherished with delight of heart for many a day, to be able to lay yourself down and sleep and awake again, can only be by the sustaining of the Lord (Psalm 3: 5).

To go on again cheerfully is the work of grace. May you both be thus sustained of Him, and He only can do it. I doubt not that it will give you a very new and helpful experience. This scene darker than ever, one of death; the scene where Christ is, brighter than ever. Thus indeed out of the eater will come forth meat.