God Has Not Promised...     

      -Annie J. Flint, 1919 

      God has not promised skies always blue,

      Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;

      God has not promised, sun without rain,

      Joy without sorrow, peace without pain.

      God has not promised we shall not know

      Toil and temptation, trouble and woe;

      He has not told us, we shall not bear

      Many a burden, many a care.    

      God has not promised smooth roads and wide,

      Swift, easy travel, needing no guide;

      Never a mountain, rocky and steep,

      Never a river, turbid and deep.     

      But God has promised strength for the day,

      Rest for the labor, light for the way,

      Grace for the trials, help from above,

      Unfailing sympathy, undying love!

     

      "God will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever!" Revelation 21:4

 

"Man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward." Job 5:7

"Man born of woman is of few days and full of trouble. He springs up like a flower and withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure." Job 14:1-2

"Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows." John 16:33

 We are such strange creatures that we probably suffer more under blows which never fall upon us than we do under those which do actually come. The rod of God does not strike us as sharply as the rod of our own imagination does; our groundless fears are our chief tormentors, and when we are able to abolish our self-inflictions, all the worries of the world become light and easy.

Needless Fears

June 11, 1874 by Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892)

12/12/12... the last date series of three identical numbers that the current population will see. Hail, posterity!