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(J.R. Miller,
"Help for the Day")
Every obstacle to holy living should only serve us with fresh
determination to succeed. We should use each difficulty and hardship as
a leverage to gain some new advantage. We should compel our temptations to
minister to us, instead of hindering us. We should regard all our provocations,
annoyances, and trials, of whatever sort--as practice-lessons
in the application of the theories of Christian life.
It will be seen in the end, that the hardships and difficulties are by no means
the smallest blessings in our lives. Someone compares them to the
weights of a clock, without which there could be no steady, orderly life.
"My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing
this, that the trying of your faith
worketh patience. But let patience have her
perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing." James
1:2-4
"ow 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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