There are heartbreaks of joy in God’s plan for His children. We can no more imagine the good things He has waiting ahead for us, both in this life and in the life to come, than Jacob could have imagined his lost boy alive and ruling Egypt.

That is the sort of miracle-surprise awaiting me daily in the tingling, vibrant, throbbing life of Jesus Christ who is my life, when I let Him fulfill His will and lavish Himself and His gifts and surprises upon me; when I let Him become all that there is of me.

What a here and hereafter He gives me, when I can say, “To me, to live is Christ and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21)! MESSAGES FOR THE MORNING WATCH

I have a heritage of joy That yet I must not see; The Hand that bled to make it mine Is keeping it for me.

My heart is resting on His truth Who hath made all things mine, Who draws my captive will to Him And makes it one with Thine! A. L. WARING

“You came to greet him with rich blessings and placed a crown of pure gold on his head” (Psalm 21:3).