{"id":1309,"date":"2011-09-24T05:46:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1309"},"modified":"2011-09-24T05:54:32","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T05:54:32","slug":"oh-what-a-pillow-on-which-to-rest-your-aching-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=1309","title":{"rendered":"Oh! what a pillow on which to rest your aching head!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Oh! what a <em>pillow <\/em>on which to rest your aching head! <\/strong>(John MacDuff)<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;If need be!&#8221; <\/em>1 Peter 1:6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Three gracious words!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Not one of all my <em>tears <\/em>has been shed for nothing! Not one <em>stroke <\/em>of the rod has been unneeded \u2014 or might have been spared! Your heavenly Father loves you too much, and too tenderly \u2014 to bestow harsher correction than your case requires!<\/p>\n<p>Is it loss of <em>health<\/em> \u2014 or loss of <em>wealth<\/em> \u2014 or loss of beloved <em>friends<\/em>? Be still! there was <em>a needs be!<\/em> We are no competent judges of what that &#8220;needs be&#8221; is; often through aching hearts we are forced to exclaim, &#8220;Your judgments are a great mystery!&#8221; But God here pledges Himself, that there will not be one<em> unnecessary thorn<\/em> in the believer&#8217;s crown of suffering. No <em>burden<\/em> too heavy will be laid on him; and no <em>sacrifice <\/em>too great will be exacted from him. God will <em>&#8220;temper the wind<\/em> \u2014 to the shorn lamb.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Whenever the &#8220;need be&#8221; has accomplished its end \u2014 then the <em>rod <\/em>is removed, the <em>chastisement <\/em>suspended, and the <em>furnace <\/em>quenched!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If need be!&#8221; <strong>Oh! what a <em>pillow <\/em>on which to rest your aching head<\/strong> \u2014 that there is not <em>one drop <\/em>in all your bitter cup \u2014 but what a God of love saw to be absolutely necessary!<\/p>\n<p>Do not too curiously be prying into the &#8220;<em>WHY <\/em>it is?&#8221; or &#8220;<em>HOW <\/em>it is?&#8221; But be satisfied that &#8220;<em>SO<\/em> it is,&#8221; and, therefore, that all must be well!<\/p>\n<p><em>Trust His loving heart<\/em> \u2014 even though you cannot trace His<em> mysterious hand!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh! what a pillow on which to rest your aching head! (John MacDuff) &#8220;If need be!&#8221; 1 Peter 1:6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Three gracious words! Not one of all my tears has been shed for nothing! Not one stroke of the rod has been unneeded \u2014 or might have been spared! Your heavenly Father loves you too much, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,35,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-john-macduff","category-gods-attributes","category-pictures-and-types"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1309"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1309\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}