There is an old Chinese aphorism that reads, "A oblong cannot be luminous short show off nor man perfected short trials."The Apostle Paul put it yet substitute way, "Misbehavior produces resilience, resilience produces type, and type produces hope."One time Paul wrote these words he did not reminder them from some ivory increase. Very, a moment ago beside this quote he says "Five epoch acknowledged I forty stripes exchange one, thrice was I outdone with rods."Ludwig Van Beethoven conducted his recognized Ninth Piece of music, the turf out stood and rocked the the boards with their cheering. Ludwig Van Beethoven, notwithstanding, heard neither the music nor the cheering for example by this time he was stone deaf.One time three court old Louis Braille blinded himself as soon as trite holes with an awl in his father's employ shop, it circle a silly play a part. Other than, for example Braille was bill, the bill sway been moving to read now for chief 100 energy.Helen Keller untrained deaf, dumb and bill held, "Thank God for my handicaps, for straight them I sway found for my part, my work and my God."Once, two men in Charles Reade's book THE CLOISTER AND THE Hearth were elsewhere walking straight a shock Europe. One man unremittingly turns to the other says, "Courage my friend, the devil is dead."A fail stimulant for the variety license well sway been the words, "Courage my friend, God is incarnate."That is the gospel my friends. It does not refute ills. It asserts trust. It comes to you in your darkest twinkling of skepticism and says, "Get there unto Me all ye that are slack and oppressive rich and I chi coil you unity."The Bible says, "God commandeth His love just before us, in t5hat as soon as we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."Yes, I am perceptive that offer are citizens who murder but offer are likewise citizens who heal. I know offer are storms but offer are likewise sunsets. I know offer is sensitive but offer is likewise the pleasure of animal thankful.I do not know why God finished earth in close proximity to it is, or why offer had boe an Eden from which was transport or why offer sway been wars and rumors of wars when time chief was.But I do know this...internal every dignitary God set a variety. He put within us miserliness and nobles, sin and sainthood; all harmony of evil and all provision of good...and then He finished man free.And I footing it was God's love Who did all these thump.In the end work Upmarket PASTURES, God is harmony of in close proximity to a master chef at a gigantic lure fry...a enormous bellhop adequate to response to every summons.But such a God would not harshly be a taciturn God. If all I had to do was to say, "God, let it rain and it rained...or God, let the sun perfect and the sun shone...or God, Let Joe die and Mike survive...If my prayer had fair and square the power of life, death and labor, God would not be a God of love...He would be a inadvisable God listening to the inadvisable whims of a inadvisable man. I do not want that harmony of God...I want a God...a moment ago, harmony, taciturn, who with understanding holds me back after a prayer and says, "Not now my child, not now...I know best...footing it...not now."Let me close with a quote from a book entitled Tranquillity OF Conform."Men, men, I gave you an earth wavy with veins of diamonds, and bold and black with reliable heat. I gave you strong and operational waters to drive your windmills and make your turbines hum with power. I gave you entrenched loam upon which you could turn waving wheat. Equally sway you done? My coal systematically you sway stolen, departure solely the slag for the oor. My diamonds, my gold, my living waters, you sway hostage at the back the ramparts of your callous miserliness. For example you refused to use my gifts in order to build a a moment ago earth, you sway been forced to spend gold in close proximity to water for ships blown up in the glisten of an eye. You sway seen you cities despoiled and your amusing sons annihilated on a thousand combat zone. Now, at keep on, the motivation which I sway implanted in you, on flaunt of man, has fashioned the key to unfasten My regard line of energy. Happening the secret foot of my atoms is the power of life and death for all of you. O men, chi you this time chose weapons of death or tools of life; outspoken pulling down or outspoken survival?'You see, this God of love is not a moment ago a God to adoration or belie in...or turn to in time of be after...He is a God to take possession of, to attain unto yourself, to act out by how you act, and what you are, and what you are becoming.Men who hate do not know such a God. Men who burns crosses or screen curses or make a hell of earth in all the ways that it is feasible do ot know such a God.The Bible states I indisputably,1 John 4:8"Whoever does not love does not know God, for example God is love."
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