Sunday, March 25, 2012

why do we have troubles?


"It is a melancholy fact,
that constant, temporal prosperity,
 as a general rule,
 is injurous to a believer's soul. 
We cannot stand it. 
Sicknesses,
losses,
crosses,
anxieties and disappointments
seem absolutely needful
 to keep us humble,
watchful
and spiritual~minded.

They are as needful as
the pruning knife to the vine
and the refiner's furnace to the gold. 
They are not pleasant to flesh and blood. 
We do not like them
and often do not see their meaning.

We shall find that all worked for our good when we reach heaven. 
Let these thoughts abide in our minds,
 if we love growth in grace. 
When our days of darkness come upon us,
let us not count it as a strange thing. 
Rather let us remember that lessons are learned on such days,
which would never have been learned in sunshine...."
jcryle

"No chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievious; 
nevertheless
 afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness." 
Hebrews 12:11

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