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Rejoice in the Lord always.

I will say it again. Rejoys. Philippians 4. 4. Can you answer this,

believer? Can you find any reason why you were so often mourning instead of rejoicing?

Why yield to gloomy anticipations?

Who told you that the night would never end in day?

Who told you that the sea of circumstances would ebb out till there

should be nothing left but long stretches of the mud of horrible poverty? Who told

you that the winter of your discontent would proceed from frost to frost?

From snow and ice and hail to deeper snow and yet more heavy tempest of despair. Don't you know that day follows night, that flood comes after Ebb,

that spring and summer succeed winter?

Be full of hope, hope forever, for God does not fail you. Do you not know that God

loves you in the midst of all this? Mountains when in darkness hidden are as real as in day and God's love

is as true to you now as it was in your brightest moments. No father chasms always. The Lord hates the rod as much as you do.

He only cares to use it for that reason that would make you willing to receive it, namely it brings about your lasting good.

You will yet climb Jacob's ladder with the angels and behold him who sits at the top of it, your covenant God. You will yet,

amidst the splendors of eternity, forget the trials of time, or only remember them to

bless the God who led you through them and works your lasting good by them.

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