HOW WHEN TRIBULATION COMES, WE MUST CALL UPON AND BLESS GOD
“Blessed be your name, O Lord, forevermore, who has willed this temptation and trouble to come upon me. I cannot escape it, but have need to flee unto You, that You may succour me and turn it unto me for good. Lord, now am I in tribulation, and it is not well within my heart, but I am sore vexed by the suffering which lies upon me. And now, O dear Father, what shall I say? I am taken among the snares, save me from this hour, but for this cause came I unto this hour, (John 12:27), that You might be glorified when I am deeply humbled and am delivered through You. Let it be Your pleasure to deliver me, (Psalms 40:16), for what can I do who am poor, and without You whither shall I go? Give patience this time, also. Help me, O Lord my God, and I will not fear how much so ever I be weighed down.
And now amid these things what shall I say? Lord, Your will, be done. I have well deserved to be troubled and weighed down. Therefore, I ought to bear, would that it be with patience, until the tempest be over past and comfort return. Yet is Your omnipotent arm able also, to take this temptation away from me, and to lessen its power, that I fall not utterly under it, even as many a time past you have helped me, O God, my merciful God. And as much as this deliverance is difficult to me, so much is it easy to You, O right hand, of the Most High.
Thomas a Kempis
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