the Third Week after Easter
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Daily Devotionals
Golden Treasury
In returning and rest shall ye he saved, in quietness and confidence shall be your strength. Isaiah 30:15. Suffer every thing that befalls thee. Sirach 2:4.
Christians must suffer patiently. This is their armour, God fighting for and assisting them. But when we are unwilling to suffer, going about to make complaints every where, and to seek human comfort, or to aid ourselves, we neglect and lose the comfort and aid of the Lord, we are stirring up the wasp-nest of our unruly thoughts, and bring more troubles upon ourselves and others; nay, we are fighting against God, who thereby intends to cure our impatience, pride, and anger. For the more we are peevish and wild, the more desperate is our disease, and consequently we have so much more need of such sharp, but wholesome plasters of afflictions, to mortify these wild passions of the flesh. Therefore we must not presume to tear them off, for fear of making the wounds and pains any worse. For he that will avoid one trouble, perhaps runs into ten others. Sometimes it is possible and easy to rid ourselves, but the help is not so glorious and blessed, as if we had waited for the help of the Lord.
Sure I must bear if I would reign,
Increase my courage. Lord!
I’ll bear the toil, endure the pain,
Supported by thy word.
Must I be carried to the skies,
On flowery beds of ease,
While others suffered for the prize,
And sailed through bloody seas.
