Monthly Archive for February, 2011

Trials

Published on February 26, 2011 in Devotional. Closed
No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the epistles were written in prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers have all passed throughout the fire. The greatest poets have “learned in suffering what they thought in song.” In bonds Bunyan lived the allegory that he afterwords wrote, and we may thank Bedford Jail for The Pilgrim’s Progress. Take comfort, afflicted Christian! When God is about to make preeminent use of a person, He puts them in fire.

George MacDonald