Quick Thought...
"Look more at the latter end of a Christian than the beginning of his affliction. Consider the patience of Job, and what end the Lord made with him. Look not upon Lazarus lying at Dive's door, but lying in Abraham's bosom. Look not to the beginning of Joseph, who was so far from his dream that the sun and moon should reverence him, that for two years he was cast where he could see neither sun, moon, nor stars; but behold him at last made ruler over Egypt. Look not upon David as there was but a step between him and death, nor as he was envied by some and slighted and despised by others; but behold him seated at his royal throne, and dying in his bed of honour, and his son Solomon and all his glisterning nobles about him. Afflictions they are but as a dark entry into your fathers house; they are but as a dirty lane to a Royal palace. Now tell me souls, whether it be not very great madness to shun the way of holiness, and to walk in the ways of wickedness because of those afflictions that do attend the ways of holiness." [Precious remedies against Satan's devices] Thomas Brooks.
And on an entirely seperate note for anyone who reads info as it can take blogger servers eons to catch up and actually delete the things. But I deleted my other two blogger blogs. Standing on the Theological Table, and Dark side of happy. As I think in one way or another, pretty much every kind of thing, gets covered here that I would have maybe at one time put exclusively on those. So, if blogger doesn't delete them promptly, they will not be added to any more. As I have deleted them from my blogger account. |
