THE SCHOOL OF SUFFERING

“—pressed out of measure–“—2 Cor. 1:8 “—that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”—2 Cor. 12:9   If you throught graduation day meant the end of school, think again. Every Christian is enrolled in the School of Christ and every experience is meant to teach us a lesson—sadly, some never learn. Do not curse your trials. God means to use them for some good.   A.B. Simpson wrote,”Nothing but the extremities in which Paul was constantly placed could ever have taught him, and taught the Church through him, the full meaning of the great promise he so learned to claim, ‘My grace is sufficent for thee.’ And nothing but our trials and perils would ever have led some of us to know Him as we do, to trust Him as we have, and to draw from Him the measures of grace which our very extremities made indispensable. Difficulties and obstacles are God’s challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fulness and all-sufficiency of Jesus; and as we go forward, simply and fully trusting Him,we may be tested, we may have to wait and let patience have her perfect work; but we surely find at last the stone rolled away, and the Lord waiting to render unto us double for our time of testing.”