It Will All Be Worth It
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulations, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:14
In all ages the Saviour's chosen have been educated and disciplined in the school of trial. They walked in narrow paths on earth; they were purified in the furnace of affliction. For Jesus' sake they endured opposition, hatred, calumny. They followed Him through conflicts sore; they endured self-denial and experienced bitter disappointments. By their own painful experience they learned the evil of sin, its power, its guilt, its woe; and they look upon it with abhorrence. A sense of the infinite sacrifice made for its cure humbles them in their own sight and fills their heart with gratitude and praise which those who have never fallen cannot appreciate. They love much because they have been forgiven much. Having been partakers Christ's sufferings, they are fitted to be partakers with Him of His glory.
The heirs of God have come from garrets, from hovels, from dungeons, from scaffolds, from mountains, from deserts, from the caves of the earth, from the caverns of the sea. On earth they were "destitute, afflicted, tormented." Millions went down to the grave loaded with infamy because they steadfastly refused to yield to the deceptive claims of Satan. By human tribunals they were adjudged the vilest of criminals. But now "God is judge Himself" (Psalm 50:6). Now the decisions of earth are reversed. (The Great Controversy, 649, 650)
Reflection: God sees and hears everything! From the past to the present He knows what we all have or will go through. But as we accept His love more and more each day we will see that our trials are not in vain.
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. And he said to me, These are they which came out of great tribulations, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Revelation 7:14
In all ages the Saviour's chosen have been educated and disciplined in the school of trial. They walked in narrow paths on earth; they were purified in the furnace of affliction. For Jesus' sake they endured opposition, hatred, calumny. They followed Him through conflicts sore; they endured self-denial and experienced bitter disappointments. By their own painful experience they learned the evil of sin, its power, its guilt, its woe; and they look upon it with abhorrence. A sense of the infinite sacrifice made for its cure humbles them in their own sight and fills their heart with gratitude and praise which those who have never fallen cannot appreciate. They love much because they have been forgiven much. Having been partakers Christ's sufferings, they are fitted to be partakers with Him of His glory.
The heirs of God have come from garrets, from hovels, from dungeons, from scaffolds, from mountains, from deserts, from the caves of the earth, from the caverns of the sea. On earth they were "destitute, afflicted, tormented." Millions went down to the grave loaded with infamy because they steadfastly refused to yield to the deceptive claims of Satan. By human tribunals they were adjudged the vilest of criminals. But now "God is judge Himself" (Psalm 50:6). Now the decisions of earth are reversed. (The Great Controversy, 649, 650)
Reflection: God sees and hears everything! From the past to the present He knows what we all have or will go through. But as we accept His love more and more each day we will see that our trials are not in vain.
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