AUGUST 29TH, 1933

AUGUST 29TH, 1933

MY DEAR MRS. —, — ... I have been thinking often of you and your household lately, having in mind the sorrow of a year ago. But you have all proved another year of faithful mercies, and the year has been crowned by divine goodness. Indeed, all God’s paths “drop fatness”; there is an excellency about them all if our eyes are open to perceive it. All that He does is in wisdom, and along with it there is always tender consideration for us in all our infirmity in frail earthen vessels. The great lesson we have to learn is subjection to the Father of spirits. It is the subject heart that gets the present comfort of a faithful and forbearing love that never turns aside. The love is there whether we have the comfort of it or not, for He abides faithful, whatever the conditions may be on our side. But He delights to give us the comfort of knowing that at all seasons our times are in His hand. He loves to be known and trusted by hearts that can get behind the veil of circumstances and find that He is there, not far from each one of us, and well pleased to be found by us in every need and distress. But found, also, in His own precious thoughts of infinite love which are secured in Christ outside the whole region of need and distress. Soon we are going to be in circumstances which will be in every way most blessed, even in His Father’s house, but before we are there actually the Son would bring us to the Father’s heart. Philip had a thought of how satisfying it would be to know the Father, for he said, “Lord, show us the Father and it suffices us”. But all that his heart craved was there before his eyes in the Son, and it is there for us too, blessed be God! ...

Yours very affectionately in Him,

August 29th, 1933.