The Greatest Pains "As many as I love I rebuke and chasten" (Rev. 3:19). God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly. --Joseph Caryl *** If all my days were sunny, could I say, "In His fair land He wipes all tears away"? If I were never weary, could I keep Close to my heart, "He gives His loved ones sleep"? Were no graves mine, might I not come to deem The Life Eternal but a baseless dream? My winter, and my tears, and weariness, Even my graves, may be His way to bless. I call them ills; yet that can surely be Nothing but love that shows my Lord to me! --Selected "The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul-anguish. from Streams in the Dessert ***
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