Here’s a quote from today’s reading in “Voices From The Past”
Humble souls may groan under affliction, they will not grumble when things are calm. Proud hearts may speak of patience, but in the storm it is the humble heart that exercises patience. I am afflicted says the humble soul, but it is mercy I am not destroyed. Though I have fallen into a pit, it is free grace that I have not fallen into hell. God is too just to wrong me, and too gracious to harm me, and therefore I will be still and quiet; let him do what he will with me. Proud souls resist when resisted; they strike when stricken. Cain cries out, ‘My punishment is greater than I can bear.’ Remember, it is not easy in affliction and tribulation to hold our peace, yet it is very advantageous.
from THOMAS BROOKS, Works, III:7-19
