He has given me a cup of deep sorrow to drink'

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"He has filled me with bitterness. He has given me
a cup of deep sorrow to drink." Lamentations 3:15

The Lord's people have many hard lessons which they 
have to learn in the 'school of Christ'. Each one has to 
carry a daily cross, and are burdened and pressed down 
under its weight. This daily cross may and does differ in 
individuals. But every child of God has his own cross, 
which laid upon his shoulders by an invincible hand, he 
has, for the most part, to carry down to the very grave. 

Thus, some of God's people are afflicted in body from 
the very time the Lord begins His work of grace upon 
their heart. Or if exempt from disease, are shattered 
in nerve, depressed in spirits, and weighed down by 
lassitude and languor, often harder to bear than 
disease itself.

Some are tied to ungodly partners, meeting 
with opposition and persecution at every step.

Others have nothing but trouble in their family, 
either from the invasion of death into their circle, 
or what sometimes is worse than death—disgrace, 
shame, and ungodliness. 

Others have little else but one continual series 
of losses and crosses in their circumstances, 
wave after wave rolling over their heads.