Cultivate the habit of considering what has been given rather than what has been withheld…. We can promote a cheerful heart by dwelling on the bright things of our lot, by counting up the mercies which are left, rather than dwelling on what we have lost.
To trust when the light has burned to its socket in the house of life, and the heart is as lonely as Job’s amid the wreck of his home. To believe that the mercy of God is not clear gone, nor His tender mercies failed. To know that all is well, when seems most ill. This keeps the heart from withering.
Excerpted from F. B. Meyer, Our Daily Homily, Vol IX, on Psalm 52:8.