bonniefaurote posted: " TRIALS CANNOT INJURE THE SOUL "Love is when God gets you to God" John Piper. And most often He does that through tribulation. "The normal person simply doesn't esteem the spiritual value of hardship. They say they believe in the truths of Scrip" Bonnie's Prayer Affair
"Love is when God gets you to God" John Piper. And most often He does that through tribulation.
"The normal person simply doesn't esteem the spiritual value of hardship. They say they believe in the truths of Scripture, but they live in an unspoken state of disappointment, irritation, impatience, or frustration with God. The trials in our lives exist not because he has forgotten us but because he remembers us and is changing us by his grace" Paul David Tripp (ref#190, June 17th).
"He who reads the hearts of men knows their weaknesses better than they themselves can know them. He sees that some have qualifications which, if rightly directed, could be used in the advancement of His work. In His providence He brings these souls into different positions and varied circumstances, that they may discover the defects that are concealed from their own knowledge. He gives them opportunity to overcome these defects and to fit themselves for service. Often He permits the fires of affliction to burn, that they may be purified" Ellen G. White (ref#331, p524).
"Let us remember that these outward trials cannot injure the soul, that they last only for a time, and that they are working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory (2 Cor 4:17)" Charles Ross (ref#241, p154).
"We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything" (2 Cor 6:8-10 ESV).
"The truth is, persecution of the godly [is] of God, and never intended for [men's] destruction, but for their glory; to make them shine the more when they are beyond [the] valley of the shadow of death. God will have the spirit of His servants kept sound. [T]he ground that the enemy has to play upon [is] the body and outward substance of the people of God. The spirit is reserved that it might be capable of maintaining communion with God" John Bunyan (ref#225, Jan 10th).
"How God loves: by doing everything He has to do, like remove every obstacle, to bring me to the place where I make much of Him" John Piper
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