"The time of testing that marks and mightily enriches a soul's spiritual career is no ordinary one, but a period when all hell seems let loose, a period when we realize our souls are brought into a net, when we know that God is permitting us to be in the devil's hand. But it is a period which always ends in certain triumph for those who have committed the keeping of their souls to Him, a period of marvelous "nevertheless afterward" of abundant usefulness, the sixty-fold that surely follows."
--Aphra White
After reading the previous quote - I was reminded of these verses in 2 Timothy:
"For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed,
for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.
13 Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me,
in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. 14 That good thing which was committed to you,
keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us."
2 Timothy 1:12-14
Amen. I hope you feel our Father holding you close through the current trials.
ReplyDeleteAmen, amen.
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