The bane of spiritual good

Unbroken worldly prosperity is the bane of spiritual good . For one thing, it hinders growth in knowledge and experience.

There are truths that can be learned better in darkness, than in light. We would never see the stars — if there were no darkness to blot out the glare of the day. Just so, there are truths in the Bible which are perhaps never learned in the brightness of human joy.

There are Divine promises which by their very nature, are invisible in the noonday of gladness, hiding away like stars in the light, and revealing themselves only when it grows dark around us.

The deeper, richer meaning of many Scriptures, is learned only amid life's painful changes.

"It was good for me to be afflicted so that I could learn Your statutes!" Psalm 119:71

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