Psalm 86:1-2 Hear
me, Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Guard
my life, for I am faithful to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You
are my God;
The human
spirit will not even begin to try to surrender self-will as long as all seems
to be well with it. Now error and sin both have this property, that the deeper
they are the less their victim suspects their existence; they are masked evil.
Pain is unmasked, unmistakable evil; every man knows that something is wrong
when he is being hurt. .... And pain is not only immediately recognizable evil,
but evil impossible to ignore. We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our
stupidities; and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most
exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that
we can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God
whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our
pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
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