Congregational Songs – New Songs for Corporate Worship

Read This Quote.

November 4, 2010

During a break in our writing session yesterday, James Tealy went to his email and read the following quote to me. I had to share it.

“Earthly prosperity is no sign of the special love of Heaven: nor are
sorrow and care any mark of God’s disfavor… God’s love is robust,
and true, and eager—not for our comfort, but for our lasting
blessedness; it is bent on achieving this, and it is strong enough to
bear misrepresentation and rebuke in its attempts to attune our
spirits to higher music. It therefore comes instructing us. Let us
enter ourselves as pupils in the school of God’s love. Let us lay
aside our own notions of the course of study; let us submit ourselves
to be led and taught; let us be prepared for any lessons that may be
given from the blackboard of sorrow; let us be so assured of the
inexhaustible tenacity of His love as to dare to trust Him, though He
slay us. And let us look forward to that august moment when He will
give us a reason for all life’s discipline, with a smile—that shall
thrill our souls with ecstasy, and constrain sorrow and sighing to
flee away forever.”

- F. B. Meyer

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