If It Were Possible For Me To

If Two Angels Were To Receive At The Same Moment A Commission From God, One To Go Down And Rule Earth’s Grandest Empire, The Other To Go And Sweep The Streets Of Its Meanest Village, It Would Be A Matter Of Entire Indifference To Each Which Service Fell To His Lot, The Post Of Ruler Or The Post Of Scavenger; For The Joy Of The Angels Lies Only In Obedience To God’s Will, And With Equal Joy They Would Lift A Lazarus In His Rags To Abraham’s Bosom, Or Be A Chariot Of Fire To Carry An Elijah Home.

There Is Many A Thing Which The World Calls Disappointment; But There Is No Such Thing In The Dictionary Of Faith. What To Others Are Disappointments Are To Believers Intimations Of The Will Of God.

If The Lord Be With Us, We Have No Cause Of Fear. His Eye Is Upon Us, His Arm Over Us, His Ear Open To Our Prayer - His Grace Sufficient, His Promise Unchangeable.

I Compare The Troubles Which We Have To Undergo In The Course Of The Year To A Great Bundle Of Sticks, Far Too Large For Us To Lift. But God Does Not Require Us To Carry The Whole At Once. He Mercifully Unties The Bundle, And Gives Us First One Stick, Which We Are To Carry Today, And Then Another, Which We Are To Carry Tomorrow, And So On. This We Might Easily Manage, If We Would Only Take The Burden Appointed For Us Each Day; But We Choose To Increase Our Troubles By Carrying Yesterday's Stick Over Again Today, And Adding Tomorrow's Burden To Our Load, Before We Are Required To Bear It.

So Dress And Conduct Yourself So That People Who Have Been In Your Company Will Not Recall What You Had On.