In reading The Art of Manliness, Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues by Brett McKay, I came across the following quotes,
"Difficulties are God's errands." -- Henry Ward Beecher
God wants you to get into trouble. So much so, that if you don't go looking for it, He will bring it to come looking for you. It is good for us to have difficulties. God wants us to do hard things. They conform us to the likeness of His Christ. They accomplish God's desires for us by conforming us to His designs.
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. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son.
The chisel strike is difficult to bear, but it shapes us into the likeness of the One who bears with us.
No comments:
Post a Comment