Prayer of the Day

"Heavenly Father, help us to bow to Your sovereign will, to bear with patience every stroke of Your rod, and to learn the holy and important lessons which You intend to teach us. May we not only submit to Your discipline but, seeing the loving which ordains it, and the need there is for it, even acquiesce in it. Keep us from fretting at pain, repining at losses, or giving way to too much grief at bereavements, knowing that all these things come from You, and that You design them for our good. Help us to understand that every trial and every trouble is a blessing - and will end in eternal glory! Sweet thought! 

O for grace to yield ourselves to You - and to sweetly acquiesce in all Your paternal dealings!"

                 - James Smith