They have done you good

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"And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose." Romans 8:28

Have your trials humbled you? Have they made you meek and lowly? If so, they have done you good. Have they stirred up a spirit of prayer in your bosom—and made you sigh, cry, and groan for the Lord to appear, visit, or bless your soul? Then they have done you good.

Have they opened up those parts of God's word which are full of mercy and comfort to His afflicted people? Then they have done you good.

Have they made you more sincere, more earnest, more spiritual, more heavenly-minded, more convinced that the Lord Jesus can alone bless and comfort your soul? Then they have done you good. Have they made the Bible more precious to you, the promises more sweet, the dealings of God with your soul more prized? Then they have done you good.

Now this is the way that "all things work together for good." Not by puffing you up with pride—but by filling your heart with humility.

Not by encouraging presumption—but by raising your affections to where Jesus sits at the right hand of God. Not by carrying us into the world—but by bringing us out of it.

Not by covering us with a veil of ignorance and arrogance—but by stripping this veil off, and bringing light, life, and power into the soul!