Yes, he is blessed
while he is enduring the trial. No eye can see this till he has been
anointed with heavenly eye salve.
But he must endure it and neither
rebel against God nor turn aside from his integrity.
He is blessed who
has gone through the fire and has not been consumed as a counterfeit.
When the test is over, then comes the hallmark of divine approval --
"the crown of life."
As if the LORD said, "Let him live; he has been
weighed in the balances, and he is not found wanting."
Life is the
reward: not mere being, but holy, happy, true existence, the realization
of the divine purpose concerning us.
Already a higher form of spiritual
life and enjoyment crowns those who have safely passed through fiercest
trials of faith and love.
The LORD hath promised the crown of life to
those who love Him.
Only lovers of the LORD will hold out in the hour of
trial; the rest will either sink or sulk, or slink back to the world.
Come, my heart, dost thou love thy LORD? Truly? Deeply? Wholly?
Then
that love will be tried; but many waters will not quench it, neither
will the Roods drown it, LORD, let Thy love nourish mine to the end.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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