Monday, December 31, 2007

Affliction, a School of Experience By Charles Spurgeon

Why should I dread to descend the shaft of affliction, if it leads me to a gold mine of spiritual experience? Why should I cry out if the sun of my prosperity goes down, if in the darkness of my adversity I shall be the better able to count the starry promises with which my faithful God has been pleased to gem the sky?

Go, thou sun, for in thy absence we shall see ten thousand suns; and when thy blinding light is gone, we shall see worlds in the dark which were hidden from us by thy light.

Many a promise is written in sympathetic ink, which you cannot read till the fire of trouble brings out the characters. "It is good for me that I have been afflicted that I might learn thy statutes."

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