If you feel the Lord is handling you in that way, bruising, hammering, using the flail on you, I say it to you emphatically, that is a hopeful sign.
The Lord is meaning something more of value in your life for others.
It is 'bread' corn that is bruised.
Many young Christians do not understand when we speak to the Lord's more mature people about the difficulties and the sufferings of the Christian life.
They think that we are a bit morbid, and making the Christian life something complicated and hard.
To any such young Christians I would say: If you are the Lord's, the Lord will deal with you appropriately to where you are spiritually.
He will not be too hard on you; He may be very gentle with you, He may just correct you with the rod, quite lightly, because so far you are just in that category of the 'fitches' and the 'cummin'.
But remember, it may not always be like that.
The Lord who wants the most, and whose heart is set upon 'bread' for His people - that over the whole earth His people should receive strength, sustenance, building up, through your ministry, individually or collectively
If it is going to be like that, to satisfy that desire of His heart, you are going to have a difficult time; you are going through the 'threshing-floor'; you are going to know the 'bruising'.
If the Lord is not able to do that, and He has to keep us on the elementary, easy-going basis, where we are all having a happy time, and the Lord very rarely does anything corrective and stringent, it is not a compliment to our spiritual life.
It may just mean that He is not able to do all that He would do if He could in this great need of bread.
So, if He really does turn His cart-wheel upon us, if the hoofs of the horses stamp upon us, if the flail gets to work, it is because He is looking upon us as bread-corn, something by which He is going to serve Himself in the interest of others.
~T. Austin Sparks~
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