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by L B Cowman
Trouble Teaches
March 10
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble" (Ps. 46:1).
The question often comes, "Why didn't He help me sooner?" It is not His order.
He must first adjust you to the trouble and cause you to learn your lesson from
it. His promise is, "I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor
him." He must be with you in the trouble first all day and all night. Then He
will take you out of it. This will not come till you have stopped being restless
and fretful about it and become calm and quiet. Then He will say, "It is
enough."
God uses trouble to teach His children precious lessons. They are intended to
educate us. When their good work is done, a glorious recompense will come to us
through them. There is a sweet joy and a real value in them. He does not regard
them as difficulties but as opportunities.
--Selected.
Not always OUT of our troublous times,
And the struggles fierce and grim,
But IN--deeper IN--to our one sure rest,
The place of our peace, in Him.
--Annie Johnson Flint
We once heard a simple old colored man say something that we have never forgotten: "When God tests you, it is a good time for you to test Him by putting His promises to the proof, and claiming from Him just as much as your trials have rendered necessary."
There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is to simply try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of Divine grace. Thus even the adversary becomes an auxiliary, and the things that seem to be against us turn out to be for the furtherance of our way. Surely, this is to be more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
--A. B. Simpson
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