Affliction comes to us all...
Not to make us sad-but sober;
Not to make us sorry-but to make us wise;
Not to impoverish us-but to enrich us!
We are always in the forge-or on the anvil.
By trials, God is shaping us for nobler things.
No physician ever weighed out medicine to his patients with half so much care and exactness, as God weighs out every trial to us.
Not one grain too much, does He ever permit to be put in the scale!
The troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way-or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven.
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things!
Heb 12:10 For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.
Heb 12:11 Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
~Henry Ward Beecher, 1813-1887~
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