This evening I was feeling burdened and just rather down. It seems like over the past few weeks I keep constantly hearing news of difficult and sad things happening to friends or friends of friends. And though these things make my personal trials seem small, it all just begins to weigh on my heart after awhile and tempts me to be anxious and discouraged.
I was looking through a list of verses and quotes that I keep and came across this quote from Spurgeon's Morning and Evening that encouraged me and I wanted to share:
Why yield to gloomy anticipations?
Who told you that the night would never end in day?
Who told you that the winter of your discontent would proceed from frost to frost, from snow and ice and hail and deeper snow and yet more heavy tempest of despair?
Don’t you know that day follows night, that flood comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter?
Be full of hope!
Hope forever!
For God does not fail you.
Do you know that God loves you in the midst of all this?
You will yet, midst the splendor of eternity, forget the trials of time, or only remember them to bless the God who led you through them and works your lasting good by them.
Come, sing in the midst of tribulation. Rejoice even while passing through the furnace.
Cause the desert to ring with your exulting joys, for these light afflictions will soon be over,
and then forever with the Lord,
your bliss shall never wane.
Faint not, nor fear,
His arms are near,
He changeth not,
And thou art dear;
Only believe and you shalt see,
That Christ is all in all to thee.
-- Post From My iPhone
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