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Mind Cure
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dissatisfaction will cease, and satisfying joys will give vigor to the
mind and health and energy to the body.
We are in a world of suffering. Difficulty, trial, and sorrow await
us all along the way to our heavenly home. But there are many
who make life’s burdens doubly heavy by continually anticipating
trouble. If they meet with adversity or disappointment, they think
that everything is going to ruin, that theirs is the hardest lot of all,
that they are surely coming to want. Thus they bring wretchedness
upon themselves and cast a shadow upon all around them. Life itself
becomes a burden to them.
But it need not be thus. It will require a determined effort to
change the current of their thought. But the change can be made.
Their happiness, both for this life and for the life to come, depends
upon fixing their minds on cheerful things. Encourage them to look
away from the dark picture, which is imaginary, to the benefits that
God has strewn in their pathway, and beyond these to the unseen
and eternal.
For every trial, God has provided help. When Israel in the desert
came to the bitter waters of Marah, Moses cried to the Lord. The
Lord did not provide some new remedy; He called attention to
something that was at hand. A shrub that He had created was to
be cast into the fountain to make the water pure and sweet. When
this was done, the people drank of the water and were refreshed. In
every trial, if we seek Christ, He will give us help. Our eyes will be
opened to discern the healing promises recorded in His Word. The
Holy Spirit will teach us how to appropriate every blessing that will
be an antidote to grief. For every bitter drink that is placed to our
lips, we shall find a branch of healing.
We are not to let the future, with its hard problems, its unsat-
isfying prospects, make our hearts faint, our knees tremble, our
hands hang down. “‘Let him take hold of My strength,’” says the
Mighty One, “‘that he may make peace with Me; and he shall make
peace with Me.’”
Isaiah 27:5
. Those who surrender their lives to the
guidance and service of God will never be placed in a position for
which He has not made provision. Whatever our situation, if we are
doers of His word, we have a Guide to direct our way. Whatever
our perplexity, we have a sure Counselor. Whatever our sorrow,
bereavement, or loneliness, we have a sympathizing Friend.