VoV Third Day Evening...

...Give us fatih to believe, and believing, to have life in Jesus;
May we enter into his sufferings;
Let us see thy hand in the instruments of our grief,
rejoicing that they are from they over-ruling providence.
Let not our weeping hinder sowing;
nor sorrow, duty......

that is a tough thing to pray, and it is the movement of faith in the heart to pray it. It goes against the grain of the flesh and our natural way of looking at things. Yet in reality it is the way to come out of and to grow through grief and suffering. Bitterness and anger at God only lead to a life full of anger and bitterness. The way through the pain of grief is to embrace the hands of a Sovereign God who suffered for us.

Vov - Third Day Morning

...Jesus..who magnified the law both in its precepts and penalty, and made it honorable....

If we ever think that Jesus somehow reduced the demands of the law then we are mistaken - He MAGNIFIED the law, and he fulfilled it perfectly. He showed the reality of the true penalty of the law by dying for us, by being made sin on our behalf. Should we not seek to honor Christ by loving the law that He magnified and gave himself to fulfill?

...if blessed with prosperity may we be free from its snares, and use, not abuse, its advantages..

That prayer is such a need for believers in the country for we are certainly among the prosperous. How might we use and not abuse the advantages we have? That must be worked out in our lives in the context of community. It is a challenge that we should take on.