It is a view of God that compensates every thing else, and enables the soul
to rest in His bosom. How, when the child in the night screams with terror,
hearing sounds that it knows not of, is that child comforted and put to rest? Is
it by a philosophical explanation that the sounds were made by the rats in the
partition? Is it by imparting entomological knowledge? No; it is by the mother
taking the child in her lap, and singing sweetly to it, and rocking it. And the
child thinks nothing of the explanation, but only of the mother.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Lo, thou trusteth in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a
man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharoah king of Egypt
to all that trust in him.
Isaiah (ch. XXXVI, v. 6)
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own
understanding.
Proverbs (ch. III, v. 5)
Trust with a child-like dependence upon God, and you shall fear no evil, for
be assured that even "if the enemy comes in like a flood" the Spirit of the Lord
will lift up a standard against him. While at that dread hour, when the world
cannot help you, when all the powers of nature are in vain, yea, when your heart
and your flesh shall fail you, you will be enabled still to rely with peace upon
Him who has said "I will be the strength of thy heart and thy portion for ever."
Henry Blunt
