[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1006":3},"OCTOBER 6\r\nHe opened not his mouth (Isa. 53:7).\r\nHow much grace it requires to bear a misunderstanding rightly, Hand to receive an unkind judgment in holy sweetness! Nothing tests the\r\nChristian character more than to have some evil thing said about\r\nhim. This is the file that soon proves whether we are electro-plate or solid gold. If we could only know the blessings that lie hidden\r\nin our trials we would say like David, when Shimei cursed him, \"Let him curse; ... it may be ... that the Lord win requite me good for\r\nhis cursing this day.\"\r\nSome people get easily turned aside from the grandeur of their\r\nfife-work by pursuing their own grievances and enemies, until their fife gets turned into one little petty whirl of warfare. It is like\r\n\r\na nest of hornets. You may disperse the hornets, but you will  probably get terrible stung, and get nothing for your pains, for even their honey is not worth a search.\r\nGod give us more of His Spirit \"who, when he was\r\nreviled not again\"; but \"committed himself to him that judgeth\r\nrighteously...... Consider him that endureth such contradiction of\r\nsinners against himself.\" --A. B. Simpson.\r\n\"Before you\" He trod all the path of woe,\r\nHe took the sharp thrusts with His head bent low.\r\nHe knew deepest sorrow and pain and grief, He knew long endurance without relief,\r\nHe took all the bitter from death's deep cup, He kept not a blood-drop but gave all up.\r\n\"Before you\" and for you, He won the fight To bring you to glory and realms of light.    --L. S. P.",1783499793918]