SORROW | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Oct 28, 1880

SORROW.

In almost every home you will find a bruised and aching heart. The trouble with those who mourn is, that, in too many cases, they try to bear their sorrows alone. That may be done; but it will drive color from the cheek, sprightliness from the eye, furrow up the brow, and prematurely whiten the locks. It will cast the shadow of age across the very noon of life. No heart is strong enough to long bear alone the mighty strain of some heavy grief. And what folly to do so, when the great Healer is at the door, and, with pitying eye, looks in and wants to be asked to bind up the wounded spirit. That is part of His mission in the world. "He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted," he says. Do you remember how he comforted the weeping sisters of Bethany? Have you never read how he made that poor, sorrow-stricken widow's heart rejoice as she was one day following her only boy to the tomb? Aye, you have often. Well then, know thou that Jehovah is the same "yesterday, to-day and forever." Earth has no sorrow which He cannot heal.