Afflictions and Trials.

Good morning!

Afflictions and Trials. All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of His saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs. ---- John Calvin. 

Where there is grace there will be a conflict. ---- J. C. Ryle.

....as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: by great endurance, in afflictions, hardships, calamities, beatings, imprisonments, riots, labors, sleepless nights, hunger; by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love; by truthful speech and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left, through honor and dishonor, through slander and praise. We are treated as impostors, and yet are true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold, we live; as punished and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing everything (II Corinthians 6:4-10).

A hymn to read, sing or hum to the glory of God: "TAKE UP YOUR CROSS," THE SAVIOR SAID.