"Shall I Not Drink The Cup Of Suffering Which My FATHER Has Given Me?"

Too wise to err, and 

too loving to be unkind!
(Arthur Pink)

"I delight to do YOUR will, 
O my GOD!" Psalm 40:8

Faith endures the disappointments, 

the hardships, and the heart-aches of life--

by recognizing that all comes from 

the hand of HIM who is too wise to err--

and too loving to be unkind.

There is no higher aspect of faith, 

than that which brings the heart 

to patiently submit unto whatever 

GOD sends us, to meekly acquiesce 

unto HIS sovereign will, to say, 

"Shall I not drink the cup of suffering 
which my FATHER has given me?" 
(John 18:11c)

Faith when it reaches the pinnacle 

of attainment declares, 

"though He slays me, yet will 
I trust in Him!"  (Job 13:15)

When we receive all that enters 

our lives as from GOD'S hand, 

then, no matter what may be our 

circumstances or surroundings--

whether in a hovel, a prison-dungeon, 

or a martyr's stake--

we shall be enabled to say, 

"The lines have fallen unto me 
in pleasant place!"  (Psalms 16:6)

But that is the language of 

faith, not of sight or sense.

"FATHER, if YOU are willing, please 
take this cup of suffering away from 
ME. Yet I want YOUR will to be done, 
not MINE!"     Luke 22:42


"It is a genuine evidence of true godliness 
when, although plunged into the deepest 
afflictions, we yet humbly submit ourselves 
to GOD. It is the height of piety to be submissive 
to the sovereign will of GOD." John Calvin


"It is not enough to bear the cross, but 

we must take it up, we must accommodate 

ourselves to it, and acquiesce in the will 

of GOD in it. Not, "this is an evil, and I 

must bear it, because I cannot help it;" 

but "this is an evil, and I will bear it, 

because it is the will of GOD." Matthew Henry 


"Christian contentment is that sweet, 

inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, 

which freely submits to and delights 

in GOD'S wise and fatherly disposal 

in every condition."Jeremy Burroughs 

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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's insightful 2 page article, 
"Christian Essentials".