Oh, Christian, what is that blessing you will get?  I can not tell all, but I can tell you this:  if you will come to Christ Jesus and surrender all, the blessing of God will be on all that you have.  There will be a blessing for your own soul.  “Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee.”  Try that; trust Jesus for everything, and trust everything to Him, and the blessing of God will come upon you—­the sweet rest, the rest of faith.  It is all in the hands of Jesus; He will guide you; He will teach you; He will work in you; He will keep you; He will be everything to you.  What a blessed rest and freedom from responsibility and from care, because it is all in the hands of Jesus!  I do not say trouble and trial will never come; but in the midst of trial and trouble you will have the all-sufficiency of the presence of Jesus to be your comfort, your help, and your guide.  Joseph was sold by his brethren, but he saw God in it, and he was quite content.  Christ was betrayed by Judas, condemned by Caiaphas, and given over to execution by Pilate; but in all that, Christ saw God, and He was content.  Give over your life, in all its phases, into the hands of Jesus; remembering that the very hairs of your head are numbered, and not a sparrow falls to earth without the Father’s notice.  Consent now and say:  “I will give up everything into the hands of Jesus.  Whatever happens is His will regarding me.  Whether He comes in the light or in the dark, in the storm or on the troubled sea, I will rest in that blessed assurance.  I give up my whole life entirely to Him.”

In reading the Book of Jonah, we find God’s hand in each step of Jonah’s experience.  It was God who sent the storm when Jonah went aboard the ship, who appointed a whale to swallow him, who ordered the whale to cast him out; and then afterwards it was God who caused the hot wind to blow when the sun was sending down its scorching rays, until the soul of Jonah was grieved, and made the gourd to grow, and sent the worm to kill the gourd, and set a sea-wind to dry the gourd up quickly.  Do we not thus see that every circumstance of our living, every comfort and every trial, comes from God in Christ?  There is nothing can touch a hair of my head.  Not a sharp word comes against me; not an unexpected flurry surrounds me, but it is all Jesus.  With my life in His hands, I need care for nothing.  I can be content with what Jesus gives.

God blessed Potiphar in the field; in the visible life outside of his house; and God will bless you, that, in your intercourse with men, you may be a blessing; that by your holy, humble, respectful, quiet walk, you may carry comfort; that by your loving readiness to be a servant and a helper to all, you may prove what the Spirit of God has done within you.  Oh, my brother, my sister, you have no conception of it,—­I have not—­how God is willing to bless the soul utterly given up to Jesus.  God can delight in nothing but Jesus.  God delights infinitely