Black seeds without beauty!

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(J.R. Miller, "Help for the Day")

" 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. " Romans 8:28

God does not send us two classes of providences--one good, and one evil. All are good.

Affliction is God's goodness in the seed. It takes time for a seed to grow and to develop into fruitfulness. Many of the best things of our lives come to us first as pain, suffering, earthly loss, or disappointment--black seeds without beauty--but afterward they grow into the rich fruits of righteousness!

"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Hebrews 12:11

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