April 15: Joy Through Tribulation.
The Lord Is Tender and Patient.
I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities.--Psalm 31:7, NKJV
OH, HOW PRECIOUS is the sweet influence of the Spirit of God as it comes to depressed or despairing souls, encouraging the fainthearted, strengthening the feeble, and imparting courage and help to the tried servants of the Lord! Oh, what a God is ours, who deals gently with the erring and manifests His patience and tenderness in adversity, and when we are overwhelmed with some great sorrow!--Patriarchs and Prophets, 657.
The Lord permits trials in order that we may be cleansed from earthliness, from selfishness, from harsh, unchristlike traits of character. He suffers the deep waters of affliction to go over our souls in order that we may know Him and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, in order that we may have deep heart longings to be cleansed from defilement, and may come forth from the trial purer, holier, happier.--Christ's Object Lessons, 174.
"Now this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
--John 17:3, NIV
Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
--Micah 7:18, 19, NIV
The Lord Is Tender and Patient.
I will be glad and rejoice in Your mercy, for You have considered my trouble; You have known my soul in adversities.--Psalm 31:7, NKJV
OH, HOW PRECIOUS is the sweet influence of the Spirit of God as it comes to depressed or despairing souls, encouraging the fainthearted, strengthening the feeble, and imparting courage and help to the tried servants of the Lord! Oh, what a God is ours, who deals gently with the erring and manifests His patience and tenderness in adversity, and when we are overwhelmed with some great sorrow!--Patriarchs and Prophets, 657.
The Lord permits trials in order that we may be cleansed from earthliness, from selfishness, from harsh, unchristlike traits of character. He suffers the deep waters of affliction to go over our souls in order that we may know Him and Jesus Christ whom He has sent, in order that we may have deep heart longings to be cleansed from defilement, and may come forth from the trial purer, holier, happier.--Christ's Object Lessons, 174.
"Now this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God,
and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent."
--John 17:3, NIV
Who is a God like you,
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
You will again have compassion on us;
you will tread our sins underfoot
and hurl all our iniquities into the depths of the sea.
--Micah 7:18, 19, NIV
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