Thursday, June 21, 2007

everyone has trials

"...we have trials such as men and women generally have to endure. 'As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me.' 'There be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous.' 'There is one even to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner.'

We share the trials of humanity. but, seeing we have promise of such great reward, even the immortality in the Kingdom of God with all its boundless prospects, is it not reasonable that our trials should be keener than those of others, our experience more bitter, our difficulties greater, our suffering more acute? Were this to be actually the case, might there not be room for boasting, and what part does boasting play in the bringing of God's sons and daughters to glory? 'It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith."

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