Thursday, October 6th
Sorrow abideth for a season but joy cometh in the morning
Psalm 30:5

Wholeness, well-being and joy are the norms of your Heavenly Father's earth-world. So much in His world is progressing towards perfection - a perfection which, indeed, is rarely met this side of "death ". Falling away and failure - inevitable consequences of careless, indifferent and selfish living - these inevitably affect the whole world, sometimes by little, often by much. It is not the Father's will that often the innocent suffer as well as the guilty ; the suffering is never mortal regarding true life. Often occasions of suffering are made the circumstances of great progress. But sorrow is inevitable in the Father's world. Yet it can be - often is - contained by joy.

Those who weather the storms of life are able to sustain, through Our holding and guidance, the ones who bend under contrary vicissitudes. Both emerge strengthened and encouraged for the way ahead. In the Father's good time all will be seen, understood and rejoiced in - all save for the wilfully corrupt.

Yet for those who reveal little or nothing of the beauty and grace and love of the Father I died also. My suffering, My death liberated in hope even the most perverse. Dimly understood by the children of men yet of the essence of truth is the value and potential of vicarious suffering in those who address themselves to it in their service of the Father through My suffering love.

All things work together for good for those who serve their Heavenly Father in loving obedience.