God's Discipline.

I may be called on to pass through pain, and sorrow, and trial, as a part of His discipline; but everything that comes from God, comes from a source and spring in which I have confidence. I look through the circumstances to Him; and nothing can separate from His love. . . . God cannot rest in the corruption of sin. He can only rest in that which is perfectly holy. And because He who thus rests is love and loves us, He makes us understand that He will bring us into His own rest, into His own delight. Now let the soul once know what the rest of God is, let the heart be once set upon it, there will be joy unspeakable in understanding that God's love can rest in nothing short of bringing us into His own delight. There will then also be the full settled consciousness that we cannot find rest elsewhere.
J. N. Darby.