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We must go through many hardships

We must go through many hardships


" We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God! " Acts 14:22

These words were addressed to Christians at a period when they were exposed to severe persecutions. Trials and sorrows in all ages, more or less, lie in the path to the world of endless peace and joy.

But all the trials which the people of God experience are designed for their good. They are not for the present joyous, but grievous—nevertheless afterward they yield the peaceable fruit of righteousness.

Afflicted Christian, you are but traveling the road on which thousands have gone before. You are but realizing what the blessed Savior foretold: "Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows," but, He added: "take heart, because I have overcome the world."

Christ has overcome, and He lives to enable you to overcome. His grace is sufficient for you. He will sustain and comfort you, and will soon give you complete deliverance. "Many are the afflictions of the righteous—but the Lord delivers him out of them all."

"The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
  Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown;
  No traveler e'er reached that blessed abode
  Who found not thorns and briers in the road."

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