Just a Thought

I found this on another blog. So I thought I would post it here too.

An excerpt from “Streams in the Desert” by L.B. Cowman, a daily devotional.

“Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart” (Ecc. 7:3)

Sorrow, under the power of divine grace, performs various ministries in our lives.  Sorrow reveals unknown depths of the soul, and unknown capacities for suffering and service.

Lighthearted, frivolous people are always shallow and are never aware of their own meagerness or lack of depth.  Sorrow is God’s tool to plow the depths of the soul, that it may yield a richer harvest…

Sorrow makes us move more slowly and considerately and examine our motives and attitudes.  It opens within us the capacities of the heavenly life, and it makes us willing to set our capacities afloat on the limitless sea of service for God and for others….

God never uses anyone to a great degree until He breaks the person completely.  Joseph experiences more sorrow than the other sons of Jacob, and it led him into a ministry of food for all the nations.  For this reason, the Holy Spirit said of him, “Joseph is a fruitful vine…near a spring, whose branches climb over the wall” (Gen 49:22)  It takes sorrow to expand and deepen the soul.

The dark brown soil is turned
By the sharp-pointed plow;
And I’ve a lesson learned.

My life is but a field,
Stretched out beneath God’s sky,
Some harvest rich to yield.

Where grows the golden grain?
Where faith?  Where sympathy?
In a furrow cut by pain.

(Maltbie D. Babcock)

Tags: Grief, Lollypop Kid, sorrow

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