For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things . . . that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death. Philippians 3:8b, 10 (ESV) Continue reading
Category: Suffering
Path of Love
“The path of love that leads from the cross of Christ to the glory of Christ is a road of sacrifice. Christ’s superior beauty over Satan and sin is seen best when we are willing to suffer for it.”
John Piper
Kiss the Waves
“I have learned to kiss the wave that throws me against the Rock of Ages.”
Charles Spurgeon
Crowned with Roses
“Would we be part of Christ’s mystical body and not be like him? His life, as Calvin says, was a series of sufferings, ‘a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.’ He wept and bled. Was his head crowned with thorns, and do we think to be crowned with roses? It is good to be like Christ, though it be by sufferings.”
Thomas Watson
Sore Trials
“If God does not give you that which you like he will give that which you need. A physician does not so much study to please the taste of the patient, as to cure his disease. We complain that very sore trials lie upon us; let us remember that God is our Physician, therefore he labors rather to heal us than to humor us.”
Thomas Watson
Vessels of Honor
“No vessel can be made of gold without fire; so it is impossible that we should be made vessels of honor, unless we are melted and refined in the furnace of affliction.”
Thomas Watson
Bearers
“There are no crown-bearers in heaven that were not cross-bearers here below.”
Charles Spurgeon
Cross Wind
“Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul’s cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.”
Thomas Watson