Category: Sorrow

Sings Through His Tears

December 13, 2025 testadmin

 

“Any man can sing by day; but only he whose heart
has been tuned by the gracious hand of Jehovah can
sing in the darkness. The things of earth may
satisfy for the hours of prosperity; but only the
peace of God can give gladness in the darkness of
adversity.

God gives joy in sorrow; and when the
sad one sings through his tears, then the Lord comes
out to him with new and more tender assurances, so that
by his very hymn he is made more gladsome. That which is born
of trust rises in rapture.” – Wm. M. Taylor.

From Streams In The Desert, Mrs. Charles E. Cowman December 2 1966 Cowman Publishing Company, Inc.

 

Our Harps

October 23, 2025 testadmin

 

There on the poplars we hung our harps, for there our captors asked us for songs,…

Psalm 137:2,3a

Sorrow

January 22, 2022 testadmin

Sorrow is better than laughter, because a sad face is good for the heart.
Ecclesiastes 7:3

“When sorrow comes under the power of Divine grace, it works out a manifold ministry
in our lives. Sorrow reveals unknown depths in the soul, and unknown capabilities of
experience and service. Gay, trifling people are always shallow, and never suspect
the little meannesses in their nature.

Sorrow is God’s plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may
yield richer harvests. … Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.
Sorrow makes us go slower and more considerately, and introspect our motives and dispositions.

It is sorrow that opens up within us the capacities of the heavenly life, and it is sorrow
that makes us willing to launch our capacities on a boundless sea of service for God and our
fellows. … So it is with many souls who indolently live on the outer edge of their own natures
until great thunderstorms of sorrow reveal hidden depths within that were never hitherto suspected.

God never uses anybody to a large degree, until after He breaks that one all to pieces. Joseph had
more sorrows than all the other sons of Jacob, and it led him out into a ministry of bread for all
nations.

 

For this reason, the Holy Spirit said of him,”Joseph is a fruitful bough…by a well,
whose branches run over the wall” (Gen.49:22). It takes sorrow to widen the soul.

– The Heavenly Life

From Streams In The Desert Vol 1 by Mrs. Charles E. Cowman Zondervan Publishing House p. 22

Tears In Your Bottle

May 28, 2020 jakin7

You keep track of all my sorrows.
    

You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
    

 

You have recorded each one in your book.

Psalm 56:8 (NLT)

His Conservatory School Of Sorrows

October 18, 2016 jakin7

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Your Father is training you for a part the angels cannot sing,
and His conservatory is the school of sorrows. Others have said
that He sends sorrows to test you, yet this is not the case.

He sends sorrow to educate you, thereby providing you with the proper training for His heavenly choir. In the darkest night He is composing your song. In the valley He is tuning your voice. In the storm clouds He is deepening your range. In the rain showers He is sweetening your melody.

In the cold He is giving your notes expression. And as you pass at times from hope to fear, He is perfecting the message of your lyrics. O dear soul, do not despise your school of sorrow. It is bestowing on you a unique part in the heavenly song.       George Matheson (1842-1906)

 

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