A place of spiritual refreshment

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(J.R. Miller, "The Glory of the Commonplace")
"He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters." Psalm 23:2
A young Christian who had been for many weeks in a hospital, undergoing a painful operation and then slowly recovering, wrote me in the days of her convalescence, "I have found my little white bed here in the hospital a bit of God's green pasture." Not only had it proved a place of rest and peace to her--but also a place of spiritual refreshment.

The hard things are not meant to mar our life--they are meant to make it all the braver, the worthier, the nobler. Adversities and misfortunes are meant to sweeten our spirits, not to make them sour and bitter.

"Before I was afflicted I went astray: but now have I kept thy word." Psalm 119:67
"It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes." Psalm 119:71
"I know, O LORD, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me." Psalm 119:75
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