Quote of the Day

Whatever may be the grievous circumstances in which I am placed, or the injustices of others from which I am suffering, if my God says, 'Fear not', I ought surely to be brave and strong. If we can only get firmly fixed in our hearts the truth that the Lord's hand is in everything that happens to us, we have found a balm for all our woes, a remedy for all our ills. When friends fail us and grow cold, when enemies triumph and grow confident, when the smooth pathway upon which we have been travelling suddenly becomes rough, stony and steep - we are too apt to look askance at the visible second causes, and to forget that our God has forseen every trial, permitted every annoyance, and authorized each item of discipline...the soul that has learned the blessed secret of seeing God's hand in all that concerns it, cannot be a prey to fear; it looks beyond all second causes, straight into the heart and will of God, and rests content because He rules.

Susannah Spurgeon