Afflictions

[Amazing Grace Ministry]

My Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

Here is a good explanation, as to why we have to face difficulties in our life, , and how God uses that as a means to bring out the best in us.

Tony

Afflictions by J.A. James

Glance at the good which afflictions are calculated to effect, and do effect in all cases where they are sanctified. As the bee sucks honey from many a bitter herb--so faith extracts good from bitter sorrows!

How sorrows crucify him to the world--and the world to him; sometimes gently drawing him away from the world at others forcing him out as by a violent wrench!

How trials mortify his pride and cure his vanity!

How afflictions restore him from his backslidings and bring him again to God from whom he has departed. How they revive his lukewarm religion and quicken him in prayer. How they make him feel that religion is after all his great concern.

Yes, there is more learned sometimes in one great affliction, than from a thousand sermons, or a library of books!

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