Psa 84:6
The Jordan valley was now for David a vale of tears, yet in due time it would become the scene of great blessing. Baca (tears) would become Berachah (blessing)!
Comfort does not come to the light-hearted and the merry. We must go down into the "depths" if we would experience this most precious of God's gifts -- comfort, and thus be prepared to be co-workers together with Him. When, in the night, "night" gathers over the garden of our souls, when the leaves close up and the flowers no longer hold any sunshine within their folded petals, comfort shall never be wanting, even in the thickest darkness, because of the drops of heavenly dew -- dew which falls only when the sun has gone.
"I have been through the valley of weeping,
The valley of sorrow and pain;
But the God of all comfort was with me,
At hand to uphold and sustain.
"As the earth needs the clouds and sunshine,
Our souls need both sorrow and joy;
So he places us oft in the furnace,
The dross from the gold to destroy.
"When he leads through some valley of trouble,
His omnipotent hand we trace;
For the trials and sorrows He sends to us,
Are part of His lessons in grace.
"Oft we shrink from the purging and the pruning,
Forgetting the Husbandman knows
That the deeper the cutting and paring,
The richer the cluster that grows.
"Well He knows the affliction is needed;
He has a wise purpose in view,
And in the dark valley He whispers,
'Hereafter you'll know what I do.'
"As we travel through life's shadow'd valley,
Fresh springs of His love ever rise;
And we learn that our sorrows and losses
Are blessings just sent in disguise.
"So we'll follow wherever He leadeth,
Let the path be dreary or bright;
For we've proved that our God can give comfort --
Our God can give songs in the night!"
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