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SteveHale
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 Your Sorrow Shall Be Turned Into Joy

John 16:20

This is the wonderful metamorphosis that your Master performs and He performs it wherever He appears.
It seems as though He possesses the seed of joy and deposits it gently in your heart without your knowledge at the moment of your darkest despair. Your distress is the fertile soil in which the plant can grow. There it sprouts patiently almost timidly and then rises toward the sky like a song of hope.
Sometimes you feel this upon the occasion of cruel mourning. Everywhere is night and an absolute dead end but admit Him only to a corner of your sorrow; soon He will show you a faint gleam at the end of the tunnel through which you walk and then the gleam will become full daylight dispelling the darkness.
There are some sorrows in which remorse is mixed, where you accuse yourself evenmore than grieve, where you twist and turn like an evildoer in his cell. Let the Master enter your cell. He will soon cast down the walls and restore peace to you.
But what about the most genuine distress in which you no longer know upon whom to call for help, that into which the apostles sank when their Master had been killed? It is here above all that He performs the real metamorphosis: one no longer calls Him, but He approaches anyway; He stretches His hand over this heaviness to change it into joy. He no longer comes to brighten your way, like a companion who would walk beside you, but inwardly He dwells in your life. He fixes in your heart His permanent sun. He plants so deeply within you His seed of joy that nothing in the world can uproot it.

Philippe Vernier


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