Babcock: Thy will be done

Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Meditation:
    Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death. See what this godly sorrow has produced in you: what earnestness, what eagerness to clear yourselves, what indignation, what alarm, what longing, what concern, what readiness to see justice done. At every point you have proved yourselves to be innocent in this matter.
    —2 Corinthians 7:10-11 (NIV)
Quotation:
    Thy will be done means more than thy will be borne. No matter what sorrow invades our life, we are still to do God’s will. We shall see afterwards that the sorrow rightly accepted fitted us to do some new duty, or to do our old duty more effectively. “Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth,” is the right cry in the hour of bewildering grief.
    ... Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901), Thoughts for Every-day Living, New York: C. Scribner’s sons, 1901, p. 122 (see the book)
    See also 2 Cor. 7:10-11; Ps. 40:8; 1 Sam. 3:10; Matt. 6:9-10; 12:50; Mark 3:35; Luke 22:42-44; John 4:34; Rom. 12:2; 1 Thess. 5:18
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, teach me to look to You in the moment of grief. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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