Christian Foundations
DEVOTIONAL ARCHIVE
Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Compiled by Mary W. Tileston
April 26
If we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for
it.--ROM. viii. 25.
One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one
day.--2 PETER iii. 8.
Lord! who Thy thousand years dost wait
To work the thousandth part
Of Thy vast plan, for us create
With zeal a patient heart.
J. H. NEWMAN.
I believe that if we could only see beforehand what it is that our heavenly Father means us to be,--the _soul_ beauty and perfection and glory, the glorious and lovely spiritual body that this soul is to dwell in through all eternity,--if we could have a glimpse of _this_, we should not grudge all the trouble and pains He is taking with us now, to bring us up to that ideal, which is His thought of us. We know that it is God's way to work slowly, so we must not be surprised if He takes a great many years of discipline to turn a mortal being into an immortal, glorious angel.
ANNIE KEARY.
