[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1209":3},"DECEMBER 9\r\nFor this our light and transitory burden of suffering is achieving for us a weight of glory (2Cor. 4:1 7, Weymouth).\r\nIs achieving for us,\" mark. The question is repeatedly asked--Why\r\n\r\nis the life of man drenched with so much blood, and blistered with  so many tears? The answer is to be found in the word \"achieving\"; these things are achieving for us something precious. They are\r\nteaching us not only the way to victory, but better still the laws\r\nof victory. There is a compensation in every sorrow, and the sorrow\r\nis working out the compensation. It is the cry of the dear old hymn:\r\nNearer my God to Thee, nearer to Thee, E'en tho' it be a cross that raiseth me.\r\nJoy sometimes needs pain to give it birth. Fanny Crosby could never have written her beautiful hymn, \"I shall see Him face to face,\"\r\nwere it not for the fact that she had never looked upon the green fields nor the evening sunset nor the kindly twinkle in her\r\nmother's eye. It was the loss of her own vision that helped her to gain her remarkable spiritual discernment.\r\nIt is comforting to know that sorrow tarries only for the night; it\r\ntakes its leave in the morning. A thunderstorm is very brief when   put alongside the long summer day. \"Weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh in the morning.\" --Songs in the Night.\r\nThere is a peace that cometh after sorrow, Of hope surrendered, not of hope fulfilled;  A peace that looketh not upon tomorrow,    But calmly on a tempest that it stilled.\r\nA peace that lives not now in joy's excesses, Nor in the happy life of love secure;\r\nBut in the unerring strength the heart possesses, Of conflicts won while learning to endure.\r\nA peace there is, in sacrifice secluded,\r\nA life subdued, from will and passion free;  'Tis not the peace that over Eden brooded, But that which triumphed in Gethsemane.",1783499794103]