THE truth is calculated to impart joy, but the absence of joy is no necessary indication of the absence of our standing in His sight; for if we take David and Jesus, we find them both overborne with suffering. Take the Psalms of David; see how much they have to do with sleepless pillows, and Christ himself was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. Therefore we must not conclude that, because we do not see the sun all the time, God is not smiling upon us.

ROBERT ROBERTS, Seasons of Comfort, page 34