December 24

He hath done all things well — Mark 7:37.

HAVE I such unfailing trust and confidence in the wisdom and goodness of my heavenly Father, that in all circumstances I can and do feel that he doeth all things well? In joy or sorrow, in comfort or suffering, in health or sickness, in life or death, can I trust him still? And so trusting, can I feel that all things are working together for my highest good? Do I look habitually to him, and live not merely for this, but for the unseen world?

Thankfulness in joy, is putting God into our comforts; and resignation in sorrow, is putting God between us and our grief.

How satisfied do we feel when we have learned to see the hand of God in every event of life, and to feel that in all he is guided by wisdom and goodness! He who has learned to seek nothing but the will of God, shall always find what he seeks. If we stand right with heaven, every cross, even, is a blessing, and every blessing a pledge and foretaste of future happiness.—HALL.

There are no lives so full of light, That every day and hour is bright. There are no lives so full of gloom, That happiness has there no room. The prospered have their hours of care; The sad and sorrowing everywhere, At times must feel—their only rest— "God knoweth best—he knoweth best!"