Our light affliction, which is but for a moment

Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.—2 Corinthians 4:17.

Only be still, and wait His leisure

In cheerful hope, with heart content

To take whatever thy Father’s pleasure,

And all-discerning love hath sent,

Nor doubt our inmost wants are known

To Him who chose us for His own.

George Neumark 1657.

Oh, how is the face of life altered, as soon as a man has in earnest made his first object to do his Father’s will! Oh, how do, what before seemed grievous burdens, bodily sickness, domestic trial, privations, losses, bereavement, the world’s scorn, man’s un-thankfulness, or whatever grief his Father may put upon him, how do these things change! To those, whose hope is in heaven, everything becomes a means of discipline, an instrument of strengthening their cheerful acceptance of their Father’s will. Their…