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The Ministry of Healing
Let the invalid, instead of constantly requiring sympathy, seek
to impart it. Let the burden of your own weakness and sorrow and
pain be cast upon the compassionate Saviour. Open your heart to
His love, and let it flow out to others. Remember that all have trials
hard to bear, temptations hard to resist, and you may do something
to lighten these burdens. Express gratitude for the blessings you
have; show appreciation of the attentions you receive. Keep the heart
full of the precious promises of God, that you may bring forth from
this treasure, words that will be a comfort and strength to others.
This will surround you with an atmosphere that will be helpful and
uplifting. Let it be your aim to bless those around you, and you will
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find ways of being helpful, both to the members of your own family
and to others.
If those who are suffering from ill-health would forget self in
their interest for others; if they would fulfill the Lord’s command to
minister to those more needy than themselves, they would realize
the truthfulness of the prophetic promise, “Then shall thy light break
forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily.”
Marah and Elim
Today ’tis Elim with its palms and wells,
And happy shade for desert weariness;
’Twas Marah yesterday, all rock and sand,
Unshaded solitude and dreariness.
Yet the same desert holds them both, the same
Hot breezes wander o’er the lonely ground;
The same low stretch of valley shelters both,
And the same mountains compass them around.
So it is here with us on earth, and so
I do remember it has ever been;
The bitter and the sweet, the grief and joy,
Lie near together, but a day between.
Sometimes God turns our bitter into sweet,
Sometimes He gives us pleasant watersprings;
Sometimes He shades us with His pillar cloud,
And sometimes to a blessed palm shade brings.