Meek Submission to Divine Chastisement
Spurgeon, Charles Haddon
2 Samuel 15:25-26
And the king said to Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of the LORD…
"Before corn can be ripened it needeth all kinds of weather. The husbandman is glad of showers as well as sunshine; rainy weather is troublesome, but sometimes the season requireth it." Even so the various conditions of man's life are needful to ripen him for the life to come. Sorrows and joys, depressions and exhilarations, have all their part to play in the completion of the Christian character. Were one grief of a believer's career omitted it may be he would never be prepared for heaven: the slightest change might mar the ultimate result. It is our wisdom to believe in the infallible prudence which arranges all the details of a believing life.
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