DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 11

DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 11

You are constantly before me in your deep sorrow, the deepest doubtless that you have ever known. May your heart be able to feel how near the Lord is to you at this time, the interest, I may say, that He takes in you in your present exercise. It is such a moulding time with Him when you can pass from your sorrow to Him and to the solace His own self can afford that you will gain in a double way, you will not only be relieved of your anguish, but you will have found the Lord in quite a new way. He blessedly fills the blank, the blank which you may have felt almost intolerable. But, blessed be God, He turneth the wilderness into a standing water; where the sense of the greatest desolation has been, there is now the sense of the greatest consolation in, and by, and from a Person whom you can never lose. It is a most blessed experience to be sustained under great pressure. The sympathy of the Lord Jesus Christ, not relieving me from the pressure, but making me to know that He beside me is bearing up the weight that it may not crush me; and at the same time to be assured of His interest and present care, so that He is daily more and more to me, is most blessed. May this winter be indeed the prelude of a great spring time to you.