Happiness of Faith

Christians might avoid much trouble and inconvenience if they would only believe what they profess - that God is able to make them happy without anything else. They imagine that if such a dear friend would die, or such and such blessings be removed, they should be miserable; whereas God can make them a thousand times happier without them. To mention my own case - God has been depriving me of one blessing after another, but as everyone was removed, He has come in and filled up its place; and now, when I am a cripple and not able to move, I am happier than ever I was in my life before, or ever expected to be; and if I had believed this twenty years ago, I might have been spared much anxiety.