Fiery trials — make golden Christians!,.
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"For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory!" 2 Corinthians 4:17
Oh Christians! under your greatest troubles — lie your greatest treasures!
"It is good for me to be afflicted — that I might learn Your statutes!" Psalm 119:71
By the greatest affliction — God teaches us the greatest instruction. When a believer lies under God's hand which afflicts him — he lies in God's heart which loves him!
Afflictions are good — but not pleasant.
Sin is pleasant — but not good.
There is more evil in a drop of sin — than there is in a sea of afflictions!
God by affliction, separates the sin He hates so deadly — from the soul He loves so dearly!
The believer studies more how to adorn the cross — than how to avoid the cross! Tell me, oh believer, is not Christ with His cross — better than the world with its crown?
"God disciplines us for our good — that we may share in His holiness." Hebrews 12:10
Suppose, Christian, that the furnace is hot, seven times hotter — it is but to make you seven times more holy! Fiery trials — make golden Christians! Sin has brought many a believer unto suffering — and suffering has kept many a believer from sinning! It is better to be preserved in brine — than to rot in honey!
"I know, O Lord, that Your laws are righteous, and in faithfulness You have afflicted me!" Psalm 119:75
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