Sickness, its trials and blessings.

  • Maurice, Priscilla, 1810-
Date:
1859
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Credit: Sickness, its trials and blessings. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and return to onr first thoughts. The truth is, your judgment is not to be trusted just now, it must share in the general weakness; but be sure of this, that if you commit it and yourself to Him who judges righteously He will surely teach you the way in which you should go The meek will He guide in judgment, and such as are gentle shall learn His way If you trust Him to decide, you will not go wrong; and the less you refine about it, and turn and return all the circumstances of the case, the better. It is often seen, that those who are in sickness, and the most deeply conscious of their own failure of power, and of the slowness of their judgment and perception, are the very people who are the most to be trusted for coun- sel, advice, or decisions; because they go wholly out of themselves, mistrusting themselves en- tirely, and look unto the Counsellor^ for every thing, and speak His words rather than their own. To them there seems to be a hea- venly instinct given, so that it is evident that the secret of the Lord is with them that fear Him Do not mourn the loss of any thing which was mei-ely your own, or which you used to fancy was such. God has provided some better thing for you'. Receive His gifts thank- fully, and He will give them to you richly. What has been said above of judgment, may ' .Tor. xi. 20. « r.s. xxxii. 8. » Ps. xxv. f). » Isa. ix. 0. 2 Ps. xxv. 14. 3 Hc1j_
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