You must not be
discouraged at the slowness of recovery.
Look up to Him who giveth liberally for faith to be resigned to His
divine will, and trust Him for that measure of health which will most glorify
Him and advance to the greatest extent your own real happiness. We are sometimes suffered to be in a state of
perplexity, that our faith may be tried and grow stronger. "All things work together for good"
to God's children. See if you cannot
spend a short time after dark in looking out of your window into space, and
meditating upon heaven, with all its joys unspeakable and full of glory; and
think of what the Savior relinquished in glory when he came to earth, and of
his sufferings for us; and seek to realize, with the apostle, that the
afflictions of the present life are not worthy to be compared with the glory
which shall be revealed in us. Try to
look up and be cheerful, and not desponding.
Trust our kind Heavenly Father, and by the eye of faith see that all
things with you are right and for your best interest. The clouds come, pass over us, and are
followed by bright sunshine; so, in God's moral dealings with us, he permits us
to have trouble awhile. But let us, even
in the most trying dispensations of His providence, be cheered by the
brightness which is a little ahead.
Thomas(Stonewall)
Jackson
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