Trials by Fire ~ The LORD JESUS Delivers His People
" And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on My name, and I will hear them: I will say it is My people; and they shall say, the L ORD is my God." — Zechariah 13:9 [KJV] O, Give me comforts or I die, saith the soul! for surely was I a child of God, I should not be thus tried, afflicted, and distressed. Nay, saith the Saviour, "ye know not what ye ask." Dost thou forget the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children? "My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him." — Hebrews 12:5 . Did I bid Thee believe on me? Believe also My words: "it is through much tribulation thou must enter My kingdom." — Acts 14:22 . This profitable lesson, though grievous to the flesh, must be learned. Like Peter, we pray to be excused being washed by our Lord. But we consider not His love, nor ou