JUNE 18TH, 1929

JUNE 18TH, 1929

MY DEAR —, — I was very sorry to know of your suffering so much pain, and I pray that you may be graciously supported by a sense of the love of Christ, who ever lives to make intercession for us. He knows well the character of the sufferings which pertain to this present time, and is touched with the feeling of our weaknesses. And He knows how to enlarge us spiritually even by things which to nature seem to be most unlikely to do us any good.

I feel much for you, for you need much succour that the confidence of your heart may be sustained in the faithful love that never makes any mistake in its ways with us. We shall be surprised to find in another day what wonderful divine workings have gone on by means of exercises produced by the conditions of creature weakness in which we are at present. The outward man is subject to all kinds of affliction, but while allowing this God never takes His eye off the inward man, and He makes the outward man a vessel of discipline for the profit of the inward man. All His ways with us promote holiness, and make room for the spiritual and the eternal to acquire larger place with us. The chastenings of His love are not joyous but grievous, but they always have their blessed “afterward” in yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness. May your heart be greatly encouraged, and enabled to honour God by its quiet confidence even amidst your present trial!

With very much love in the Lord,

Yours very affectionately in Him,

June 18th, 1929.