Alexander Maclaren: God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give…
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
In today’s wordsGod gives us strength to bear the sorrows He sends, but not the sorrows we make ourselves, and dreading sorrow in advance is certainly one of those.
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