@MichelleDLesley Oh I am so very sorry. Many prayers for you and your family today and in the days ahead. May the Lord comfort your grieving hearts and wrap His loving arms around you!
It is mercy that our lives are not left for us to plan, but that our Father chooses for us; else might we sometimes turn away from our best blessings, and put from us the choicest loveliest gifts of his providence.
Susannah Spurgeon
Real satisfaction comes not in understanding God's motives, but in understanding His character, in trusting in His promises, and in leaning on Him and resting in Him as the Sovereign who knows what He is doing and does all things well.
Joni E. Tada
It is not hard for the Lord to turn night into day. He that sends the clouds can as easily clear the skies. Let us be of good cheer. It is better farther on. Let us sing Hallelujah by anticipation.
Spurgeon
Affliction brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God.
Robert Murray McCheyne
If all that happens to you can be traced directly or indirectly to the hand of your loving Lord—then how gladly should you bear life’s burdens, and how perfect should be the rest in which heart and mind should dwell!
Susannah Spurgeon
By affliction, He teaches us many precious lessons, which without it we should never learn. By affliction He shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, makes us long for heaven.
JC Ryle
But God is the God of the waves and billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and again and again we have proved that the overwhelming thing does not overwhelm. Once more by His interposition deliverance came. We were cast down, but not destroyed.
Amy Carmichael
“Let us be as happy as we can during this year. You have your trials and troubles to come—do not expect that you will be free from them. Herein is your joy, the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ will never leave you nor forsake you.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
1st Sunday of 1867
I am excited and humbled to partner with @RHB_Books to edit and publish "The Complete Works of Thomas Watson." Since his death in 1686, this is the first time the works of Watson will be published in a single set. A colossal Puritan figure, Watson still has much to teach us.