May 3
Daily Gleanings of the Saintly LifeFriday after Fourth Sunday in Lent
By patient continuance in well-doing. Romans 2:7.
God leads us on step by step. One object of our Lenten fast is a long-continued discipline. We should, none of us, by God's grace go forth out of Lent as we entered it. So solemn a season of stillness, collectedness, subdual of self, will not pass over us without the distilling of His grace, if we seek to gather and store it up within us. Let us so learn to know ourselves and our besetting faults. Seek we in earnest to subdue one. Each fault has some pain accompanying it which will give us notice of its approach. In any case, so soon as the temptation comes, betake thyself to some brief prayer or some thought of God which shall be prayer. Thou wilt know what His might is, for thou wilt know what it is earnestly and with perseverance to desire that His might be put forth in thee and for thee; thou wilt have followed Him, like the blind man on the way, and have cried after Him, and He Who taught thee that cry will hear thee, and say to thee, "Be it unto thee as thou wilt."
Show me the way that leadeth unto Thee: Though it be difficult, Thou art all might; Though low, Thou art of love a boundless sea; Though dark, Thou art Thyself the living Light; Though toilsome, Thou art goodness infinite; And wilt refresh the heavy-laden soul That comes to Thee.