DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 14

DISCIPLINE OF THE SERVANT NO. 14

I can well enter into the sense of the blank in your house that you are feeling at this moment. The removal of the dearest from one’s side for ever in this scene must cast a shadow on the scene that can never be removed, and yet it ministers blessing to the one thus afflicted.

Though this scene is deeply darkened, the One to whom she has gone is more than ever before your heart. Thus out of the eater comes forth meat. I am quite sure that the death of a beloved one here in a peculiar way brings our Lord’s death more before the heart. Every fresh sorrow revives all the former sorrows; and surely no death is more affecting to our hearts than His. We are indeed pilgrims and strangers where He died, and where death caused Him the deepest sorrow. The Lord be much with you, or rather may you be so very near Him that you may be led by Him aright in the new and more dreary path now before you.