Learn to be content with
your present lot
"My times are in Your
hand." Psalm 31:15
Learn to be content with your present lot, with
God's dealings with, and His disposal of, you.
You are just where His providence has, in its
inscrutable, but all wise and righteous decision,
placed you. It may be a painful, irksome, trying
position, but it is right. Oh yes! it is right!
Strive, then, to live a life of daily dependence upon
God. Oh it is a sweet and holy life! It saves . . .
from many a desponding feeling,
from many a corroding care,
from many an anxious thought,
from many a sleepless night,
from many a tearful eye, and
from many an imprudent and sinful scheme.
Thus you shall walk with God through this valley of tears, until
you exchange . . .
sorrow for joy, suffering for ease, sin for purity, labor for
rest, conflict for victory, and all earth's chequered, gloomy
scenes, for the changeless, cloudless happiness and glory of
heaven!
Octavius Winslow, Divine Realities, 1860
