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Are you living within the veil?

March 14, 2010 by Christina

REPOSTED FROM AUGUST 2010:

“When present affliction strips us of all earthly comforts, so that we can adopt Habbakuk’s words; if it makes us look with in the veil and hear Christ saying, ‘Am I not better than all My gifts?’ then affliction is a blessing.

How far will the blessing go?

It worketh out for us an eternal weight of glory.

Affliction for a moment, then an eternity of glory to recompense it!

Instead of there being just a possibility that the affliction may do you good, Paul says “It is beyond measure efficacious.  You could not do without it.’

To Paul the heaviest affliction seemed but a feather resting on his soul, because he lived so much within the veil.

If we cannot, like him, say ‘Our light affliction,’ let us try to say at any rate, ‘It is but for a moment.’ “

Andrew Bonar, Heavenly Springs, page 188.

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  1. Jon J. Cardwell says

    August 6, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    Mr. Bonar was crushed in private prayer far more than even his diaries and devotions reveal. What a blessing.

    Thank you, sister, for posting this.

  2. pilgrim mommy says

    August 6, 2010 at 8:51 pm

    “Instead of there being just a possibility that the affliction may do you good, Paul says ‘It is beyond measure efficacious. You could not do without it.’ ”

    This isn’t a trite or easy thing to agree with, but I have found it too be so true. I shudder to think what I would be without the afflictions that God has permitted in my life..

  3. Diane says

    August 7, 2010 at 4:24 pm

    If we cannot, like him, say ‘Our light affliction,’ let us try to say at any rate, ‘It is but for a moment.’

    Amen! In reality, it IS difficult the fire is hotter, but let us try and perchance God’s grace will follow close behind.

    Thank you Christina.

  4. Petra Hefner says

    August 9, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Thank you, Christina!

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