"God hath not promised skies always blue, / Flower-strewn pathways all our lives through; / God hath not promised sun without rain, / Joy without sorrow, peace without pain. / But God hath promised strength for the day, / Rest for the labor, light for the way, / Grace for the trials, help from above, / Unfailing kindness, undying love."
— Annie Johnson Flint
Source: What God Hath Promised (poem, 1919)
Strength, Trial, Comfort
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""Ah, there is rest!" I thought. "I have striven in vain to rest in Him. I'll strive no more. For has He not promised to abide with me — never to leave me, never to fail me?" … The sweetest part … is the rest which full identification with Christ brings. … No fear that His resources will be unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me. All this springs from the believer's oneness with Christ."
— James Hudson Taylor
Source: Letter to his sister Mrs. Broomhall, 17 Oct. 1869, in Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor, Hudson Taylor and the China Inland Mission: The Growth of a Work of God (1918), ch. 12 "The Exchanged Life"
Strength, support, peace, infant, mother, joy
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"The task is so great and the strength we can contribute so small, we have no time to quarrel with one another along the way, longing only that the millions of China would come under the influence of Christ."