Book of Jeremiah
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The Potter's Hand is hidden from the sight of others in regards to the work He does in each one of us. It is a most peculiar thing that we often sense His Hand working in our own trials but fail to see it in others. Instead we want to pre-qualify who should warrant such attention. Everyone is at different places with God - some may not even know God. There are two paths a person takes when an overwhelming trial hits. They can run to God and draw nearer to Him seeking His counsel and comfort or they can run away from God seeking to warm themselves by their own fire and accept the counsel of the world which does not know God. The latter road leads to an endless misery and emptiness which hardens the heart, whereas the right road - to run to God - leads to repentance, healing, restoration. The same sun that melts wax will harden clay. The following is three short writings (from different authors) and a poem from a 1965 publishing quoted by Mrs. Cowman's Streams in the Desert - that reveal the benefits of affliction. Lettie Cowman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This is going to minister to some people this morning but if it isn't for you, perhaps at another time - it will be.
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Through his griefs Job came into his inheritance. He was tried that his godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to robe me in graces I had little of before? I come to my glory through eclipses, tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee."
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near in His majesty that I bend low before Him and pray, thy will be done, I gain very much. God gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those wearisome days and nights, he penetrated through the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," Surely the latter end of Job was more blessed than the beginning. - The Hour of Silence
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Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a nugget of gold in her hand.
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the right if we are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and endure suffering. There are joys that can come to us only through sorrow. There are revealings of Divine truth which we can get only when earth's light has gone out. There are harvests which can grow only after the plowshare has done its work. - Selected
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. - Chapin
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I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear,
Beat on, true heart forever;
Shine bright, strong golden chain;
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!
-Adelaide Proctor
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning."
Job 42:12
This is going to minister to some people this morning but if it isn't for you, perhaps at another time - it will be.
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Through his griefs Job came into his inheritance. He was tried that his godliness might be confirmed. Are not my troubles intended to deepen my character and to robe me in graces I had little of before? I come to my glory through eclipses, tears, death. My ripest fruit grows against the roughest wall. Job's afflictions left him with higher conceptions of God and lowlier thoughts of himself. "Now," he cried, "mine eye seeth thee."
And if, through pain and loss, I feel God so near in His majesty that I bend low before Him and pray, thy will be done, I gain very much. God gave Job glimpses of the future glory. In those wearisome days and nights, he penetrated through the veil, and could say, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," Surely the latter end of Job was more blessed than the beginning. - The Hour of Silence
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Trouble never comes to a man unless she brings a nugget of gold in her hand.
Apparent adversity will finally turn out to be the advantage of the right if we are only willing to keep on working and to wait patiently. How steadfastly the great victor souls have kept at their work, dauntless and unafraid! There are blessings which we cannot obtain if we cannot accept and endure suffering. There are joys that can come to us only through sorrow. There are revealings of Divine truth which we can get only when earth's light has gone out. There are harvests which can grow only after the plowshare has done its work. - Selected
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Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. - Chapin
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I shall know by the gleam and glitter
Of the golden chain you wear,
By your heart's calm strength in loving,
Of the fire you have had to bear,
Beat on, true heart forever;
Shine bright, strong golden chain;
And bless the cleansing fire
And the furnace of living pain!
-Adelaide Proctor
"So the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning."
Job 42:12
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