In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer
grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of greater worth
than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and
may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. --I Peter 1:6-7 (BIBLE)
"Soon after a wartime marriage, Margie Hamilton's husband was killed. Then a little
later her baby was born with a cruel deformity. After about 40 operations, poverty
followed. Reacting to all her misfortunes she said, "Its all
mud around the gold.'"
Like Margie I have plenty of mud around the gold. And sometimes its hard to see the gold. But what Margie said helps me to focus on the gold.
And the Bible says we have this treasure in earthen vessels so the the glory may belong to God and not ourselves.
Are you rejoicing with me?
(adapted from Joni Ereckson Tada)
grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith-of greater worth
than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire-may be proved genuine and
may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. --I Peter 1:6-7 (BIBLE)
"Soon after a wartime marriage, Margie Hamilton's husband was killed. Then a little
later her baby was born with a cruel deformity. After about 40 operations, poverty
followed. Reacting to all her misfortunes she said, "Its all
mud around the gold.'"
Like Margie I have plenty of mud around the gold. And sometimes its hard to see the gold. But what Margie said helps me to focus on the gold.
And the Bible says we have this treasure in earthen vessels so the the glory may belong to God and not ourselves.
Are you rejoicing with me?
(adapted from Joni Ereckson Tada)
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