Encouragement In The Storms
When
your faith endures many conflicts, and your spirit sinks low, do not
condemn yourself. There is a reason for your season of heaviness.
Great soldiers are not made without war. Skillful sailors are not
trained on the shore. It appears that if you are to become a great
believer, you will be greatly tested. If you are to be a great help
to others, you must pass through their trials. If you are to be
instructed in the things of the kingdom, you must learn from
experience. The uncut diamond has little brilliance, and the
unthreshed corn feeds no one, and the untried believer is of little
use or beauty.
There
are GREAT BENEFITS to come from your trials and depression. The one
who is much plowed and often harrowed will thank God if the result is
a larger harvest to the praise and glory of God by Jesus Christ. If
your face is now covered with sorrow, the time will come when you
will bless God for that sorrow. The day will come when you will see
great gain from your losses, your crosses, your troubles and your
affliction. From your affliction this glory shall spring, and the
deeper your sorrow the louder you’ll sing.
-unknown Gospel preacher
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