July 22
Find God’s purpose in trial
“As ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation” (2 Cor. 1:7).
“Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God” (2 Cor. 1:4).
It must be somewhere in my grief that the help of the grief is hidden. It must be in some discovery of the divine side of the sorrow that the consolation of the sorrow will be found. It is a wondrous change when a man stops asking of his distress, “How can I throw this off?” and asks instead, “What did God mean by sending this?”
—Phillips Brooks.
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