Although, at thirty-four minutes till the new year, this is a time of great festivity, I find myself in a melancholy mood. So, I have attempted to remedy my mood with words from one of my favorite authors: George MacDonald. He was an amazing Scottish preacher, and then writer, in the 1800s…and I often find his words encouraging. Here is a quote from one of his Unspoken Sermons–THE CAUSE OF SPIRITUAL STUPIDITY–
With every haunting trouble then, great or small, the loss of thousands or the lack of a shilling, go to God, and appeal to him, the God of your life, to deliver you, his child, from that which is unlike him, therefore does not belong to you, but is antagonistic to your nature.
If your trouble is such that you cannot appeal to him, the more need you should appeal to him…Let such as would do what they must yet cannot, be what they must yet cannot, remember, with hope and courage, that he who knows all about our being, once _spake a parable
to the end that they ought always to pray, and not to faint_.
