The Eleventh of February

YET A LITTLE WHILE --- Hebrews 10:35, 37

"Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart." --- Psalm 97:11.

"Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness; he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous." --- Psalm 112:4.

"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward; for ye have need of patience, etc. For yet a little while, and he that will come shall come, and will not tarry." --- Hebrews 10:35, 37; Isaiah 58:10-12.

This shows that believers are subject to many changes of joy and sorrow. In a state of gladness, therefore, we have reason to fear; and, in the hours of trouble and sadness, to entertain good hopes.

Thus we shall always be able to keep the happy medium between extremes of levity and despair. Before a man has a true sense of his own miseries, the complaints and infirmities of the saints are often a stumbling-block, but afterwards they will administer to him great comfort.

This is the reason that God has revealed them in Scripture; for the complaints of his elect children give more comfort than all their most heroic actions.

Alas! it swells my sorrows high,
To see my blessed Jesus frown;
My spirits sink, my comforts die,
And all the springs of life are drown.

Yet why, my soul, why these complaints?
Still while he frowns his bowels moves;
Still on his heart he bears the saints,
With tender sympathy and love.