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Some fall at His feet—but others fly in His face!

"We count them happy who endure." James 5:11

Our afflictions are trials. Every professor shall be tried. 

Under affliction, some fall at His feet—but others fly in His face! 

Happy is the man who meets his trials like a Christian—with humility, faith, fortitude and patience.

Happy is the man who endures them without repining, complaining, and rebelling against God. 

He looks not so much at the rod—as at the hand that uses it; nor only at the hand—but at the heart that guides the hand!

He says, "It is discipline. It is chastisement. It is my Father who strikes—and He never corrects unless I need it! He chastens me for my profit, to make me a partaker of His holiness. I have prayed for deeper sanctification; He is only answering my prayer. Shall I then complain? The 'cup' which my heavenly Father gives me—shall I not drink it?"