Whoever considers the manifold calamities to which mankind are exposed in the present state, must feel some emotion of sorrow.
Sin has introduced great misery and universal disorder into the world! No person, however obscure, or eminent or educated can stand invulnerable against the arrows of adversity.
It is, however, the peculiar privilege of a godly man, that though, alike with others, he partakes of the sufferings of humanity yet he sees a wise hand directing every event, and rendering all subservient to a grand and glorious end. He desires to learn the noble lessons of patience and submission, while his heart glows with gratitude to Him to whom he is indebted for every comfort he enjoys, and without whose permission he knows no evil can transpire!
[Charles Buck]
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Job 5:6-7 ... Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground; Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
John 16:33 ... These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
Romans 8:28 ... And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.❤
