
“I leaped over a wall” (Psa 18:29).
“There are twenty hills between here and the place of your destination,” said a friend as he met another going in the opposite direction on his bike.
It was enough to make one ill to think of those hills, and it ill became him to cause those hills to rise before us. We thought as we walked up the long hill out of Grantham, if the twenty hills are all like this, we shall be ill before we get over the hills. But we found the hills were not so bad after all, for they made a good switchback, and relieved the monotony of a dead level. We could not help thinking we had borrowed misery in wondering how we were to rise above the rises of the way, for the up-and-down was rather a relief and a change, than a tiresome difficulty. Many an imaginary difficulty has been an inspiriting [encouraging] delight; and what seemed to be irksome [annoying] in the distance, was not bad when we came near.
have only brought the Lord near in the help of His hand, in the heart of His love, in the strength of His grace, and in the vista of His glory.
Hardship is not the worst ship in which to sail on the ocean of life, especially if we have fellowship with the Lord.
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