August 1

Believer Forewarned of Sorrow

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. — John 16:33

The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
No traveller e’er reached that bless’d abode,
Who found not thorns and briars in his road.