Life-lessons by J.R. Miller

[b]Life-lessons[/b]

(J. R. Miller, "In Green Pastures")

"Learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble
in heart." Matthew 11:29

We all fail in the life-lessons which our great
Teacher sets for us. The hardest school-tasks are
easily mastered--in comparison with the lessons of:
patience,
sweet temper,
forgiveness,
unselfishness,
gentleness,
humility,
purity,
contentment.

Even at best--we can learn these lessons but slowly.
And though but little seems to come from our yearnings
and strugglings after Christ-likeness--yet God honors the
yearning and the striving. While we sit in the shadows of
weariness, disheartened with our failures--He carries on
the work within us, and with His own hands produces
the divine beauty in our souls.