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The Preciousness of Trial

Started by spurgeon, August 13, 2016, 03:25:44 PM

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spurgeon

More Octavius Winslow.....my wife read this to me today and it brought me to tears and also gave me a since of relief, in knowing that "soon we will be home, where God will wipe away our tears and take away our pain.....FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" hallelujah!

What shall we then say to these things? Shall we not count among the precious things of God, not the least precious, the trial whose discipline removes from us so much evil, and confers upon us so much good?  How little should we know experimentally the Lord Jesus- what depths there were in His love, what soothing in His sympathy, what condescension in His grace, what gentleness and delicacy in His conduct, what exquisite beauty in His tears, what safety beneath His sheltering wing, and what repose upon His loving heart, but for this very adversity.  

Your ark is tossed amidst the broken waters, but you have Christ on board your vessel, and it shall not founder.  He may seem, as of old, "when asleep upon a pillow," ignorant of, and indifferent to, the storm that rages wildly around you; yet the eye of His Godhead never slumbers, and He will, and at the best moment, arise in majesty and power, hush the tempest and still the waves, and there shall be peace. And will you not then count that a precious adversity that awakens in your breast the adoring exclamation, "what manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him?"

Yes; Christ treads the limpid pathway of your sorrow. He comes to you walking upon the sea of your trouble. He approaches to quell your fears, to calm your mind, to give you peace. And but for this alienation of property, this sore bereavement, this terrible calamity, this wasting disease, this languor, suffering, and decay, these restless days and wakeful nights, oh, how many a precious visit from the Beloved of your soul would you have lost!  

Be still then; trial will bring a precious Jesus to you; and the presence, the love, the sympathy, and the grace of Jesus will lighten, soothe, and sweeten your trial.  We shall soon be home, where "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain."  The last truth of God will be seen, the last lesson of holiness will be learned, the last taint of sin will be effaced, and there will be no more need of sorrow's discipline, nor the hallowing influence of precious trial; the last ember of the furnace will be extinguished, the last wave of trouble will die upon the shore, and we shall be forever with Jesus.  

Until then, "commit your way unto the Lord," leave your concerns in His hands, "trust in Him," and come up from the wilderness clinging to His almighty arm, and leaning upon His loving breast, to uphold you in weakness, to soothe you in grief, and to bring you home to Himself, where the days of your mourning shall be ended, and "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes."  

Winslow, The Precious Things of God, pg. 41-42
Rev 21:4 - "He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death' or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."

foxgrove

Hey Spurgeon, long time no see.  Welcome home, brother. :bighug:

Very nice.  Thank you for this.  :budy:
Where God leads, His hand always provides
...so keep Calm and code on....

Foxgrove

denny

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Always good to be reminded in such elegantly phrased words.
Very nice. :bighug:
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