"Yet it hath a better side..."

There are days, moments, places in life where Jesus gives me no option but to rush to him and ask that he cover my hurts, ease my bewilderment, and hold me tight because I am so overwhelmed by confusion with what He is doing in my life. Oh how grateful I am for a living, intimately real, loving Father in Heaven who know's all things, and works EVERYTHING out for my good.

Today I find encouragement in these thoughts:

"God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desires of our heart."
~ John Newton

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"Joy is not gush: joy is not jolliness. Joy is simply perfect acquiescence in God's will, because the soul delights itself in God himself...rejoice in the will of God, and in nothing else. Bow down your heads and your hearts before God, and let the will, the blessed will of God, be done."
~Amy Carmichael

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Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
-Psalm 73:25-26

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"How beit your faith sees but the black side of Providence, yet it hath a better side, and God shall let you see it. We know that all things work together for good to them that love God; hence I infer that losses, disappointments, ill tongues, loss of friends, houses or country, are God's workmen, set on work to work out good to you, out of everything that befalleth you. When the Lord's blessed will bloweth cross your desires, it is best, in humility, to strike sail to Him, and to be willing to be led anyway our Lord pleaseth."
- Samuel Rutherford


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Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel I'll raise;
so by my woes to be
nearer, my God, to thee;
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!

And so I trust Him.

Jessica