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Thoughts for the Afflicted

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 13, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 35.

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Thoughts for the Afflicted

By MRS. H. D. HUDGINS

MRS. H. D. HUDGINS
Sometimes when I take a retrospective view of life, my heart is filled with sorrow and regret for opportunities which I left unimproved, as I realize that they are now gone forever. There are many things that I might have done in service for God and my fellow men. And still from the depths of affliction I can see many things over which to rejoice. I can still do something, and little though it is, I know that the Master understands and blesses the effort.
Sometimes when the hand of sorrow is laid heavily upon us, it is hard to say with patient resignation, “Thy will be done.” Then it is well to remember that our loving Father does not willingly afflict his children. He has left us this comforting message: “Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: but rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.” And when the hardest things come, we must not fear, for God has promised that he will never leave us nor forsake us.
So let us be courageous in our appointed place, and forgetting the past, grasp present opportunities, walking gently, yea, softly, before the Lord.
Diggs, Va.