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God Purifies Us in the Fiery Furnace of Afflictions ㅡ

 “For you, O God, have proved us: you have tried us, as silver is tried.

 You brought us into the net; you laid affliction on our loins.

 You have caused men to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but you brought us out into a wealthy place.”

 (Psalm 66:10~12)

Afflictions are oft mercies in disguise.

We know not what we might have been without them.

When God in His mysterious providence overthrows all our cherished plans, and we may receive sorrow in the place of joy, we will bow in submission and say, “Thy will, Oh God, be done.” 

We must and we will ever cherish a calm, religious trust in One who loves us, who gave His life for us.

The Lord looks upon our afflictions.

He graciously and discriminately metes them out and apportions them.

As a refiner of silver He watches us every moment until the purification is complete.

The furnace is to purify and refine, not to destroy and consume.

He is ever watching to impart, when most needed, new and fresh blessings, strength in the hour of weakness, succor in the hour of danger, friends in the hour of loneliness, sympathy, human and divine, in the hour of sorrow.

 (Daughters of God 223, 224)

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