[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0319":3},"MARCH 19\r\nBeloved, do not be surprised at the ordeal that has come to test you ... you are sharing what Christ suffered; so rejoice in it (1\r\nPeter 4:12).\r\nMany a waiting hour was needful to enrich the harp of David, M and many a waiting hour in the wilderness will gather for us a psalm of\r\n\r\n\"thanksgiving, and the voice of melody,\" to cheer the hearts of\r\nfainting ones here below, and to make glad our Father's house on high.\r\nWhat was the preparation of the son of Jesse for the songs like unto which none other have ever sounded on this earth?\r\nThe outrage of the wicked, which brought forth cries for God's\r\nhelp. Then the faint hope in God's goodness blossomed into a song of rejoicing for His mighty deliverances and manifold mercies.\r\nEvery sorrow was another string to his harp; every deliverance another theme for praise.\r\nOne thrill of anguish spared, one blessing unmarked or unprized,\r\none difficulty or danger evaded, how great would have been our loss\r\nin that thrilling Psalmody in which God's people today find the expression of their grief or praise!\r\nTo wait for God, and to suffer His will, is to know Him in the\r\nfellowship of His sufferings, and to be conformed to the likeness\r\nof His Son. So now, if the vessel is to be enlarged for spiritual\r\nunderstanding, be not affrighted at the wider sphere of suffering\r\nthat awaits you. The Divine capacity of sympathy will have a more extended sphere, for the breathing of the Holy Ghost in the new\r\ncreation never made a stoic, but left the heart's affection tender and true. Anna Shipton.\r\n\"He tested me ere He entrusted me\" (1 Tim. 1: 12, Way's Trans.).",1783499792050]