It is true that our afflictions are great and manifold. Yet we have no reason for complaint, when we know that our afflictions are all ordered in number, measure, and duration--for our best and greatest good, according to the counsels of God's infinite wisdom and love!
We have no reason for complaint, when we are assured that our afflictions are the very things which we would choose for ourselves, if we saw the outcome of them as clearly as God sees it!
If we view our afflictions in this way, we shall receive even the most painful of God's dispensations as blessings in disguise!
[Charles Simeon]
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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.
Psalm 119:71 ... It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes.
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.
2 Corinthians 4:17-18 ... For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. ❤
