May 3
Daily Cheer for All the YearThe cup which my Father has given me, shall I not drink it?—JOHN xviii, 11.
Hold in thy murmurs Heaven arraigning!
The patient see God's loving face;
Who bear their burdens uncomplaining,
'Tis they that win the Father's grace.
There is nothing in what has befallen or befalls you which justifies impatience or peevishness. God is inscrutable, but not wrong. Remember if the cloud is over you that there is a bright light always on the other side; also, that the time is coming, either in this world or the next, when that cloud will be swept away, and the fullness of God's light and wisdom poured around you. If your life is dark, then walk by faith; and God is pledged to keep you as safe as if you could understand everything.
HORACE BUSHNELL.
The vexation, restlessness, and impatience which small trials cause arise wholly from our ignorance and want of self-control. We may be thwarted and troubled, it is true, but these things put us into a condition for exercising patience and meek submission, and the self-abnegation wherein alone the fullness of God is to be found.
DE RENTY.