'Here on earth you will have many
Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows
Wherever Christ places us — we are to stay; and where He sends us — we are to go. In the heat of life's conflicts, obstructed by a host of things which tend to distract our peace — we are to maintain an unruffled calm, and the tenderness and simplicity of the heart of a little child.
That is the lesson which Christ presents to us.
As the tender grass and even the sweet flowers live and thrive all through the winter under the deep snows, and emerge in the springtime in beauty — so our hearts may remain loving, tender, and joyous through life's severest winter, under the snows of trial and sorrow.
"I have told you all this so that you may have peace in Me.
Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows .
But take heart, because I have overcome the world!" John 16:33