Crushed like a lily

Crushed like a lily under the heel of wrong or sin

Many of the truest and best of God's children know only defeat in this world.

They are evermore beaten back and thrust down.

The burdens are too heavy for them.

They are overmastered by sorrows.

The world's enmity treads them in the dust.

They are not worldly wise, and, while others march by to great earthly success, they live obscurely — oppressed, cheated, wronged, and lie buried away in the darkness of failure.

Life may seem a failure here, crushed like a lily under the heel of wrong or sin — broken, trampled and torn .

But it may yet become a glorious success.

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" 2 Corinthians 5:17

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