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Date Posted: 07:27:33 06/25/00 Sun
Author: H
Subject: Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow...






Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

". . . what shall I say?
'Father, save Me from this hour'?
But for this purpose I came to this hour. 'Father, glorify Your name' "
(John 12:27-28).

As a saint of God, my attitude toward
sorrow and difficulty should not be
to ask that they be prevented,
but to ask that God protect me
so that I may remain what He created me
to be,
in spite of all my fires of sorrow.

Our Lord received Himself,
accepting His position
and realizing His purpose,
in the midst of the fire of sorrow.
He was saved not from the hour,
but out of the hour.

We say that there ought to be no sorrow,
but there is sorrow, and we have to accept
and receive ourselves in its fires.
If we try to evade sorrow,
refusing to deal with it, we are foolish.
Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life,
and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering
are,
and it is not for us to say that
God has made a mistake in allowing them.

Sorrow removes a great deal of
a person's shallowness,
but it does not always make that person better.

Suffering either gives me to myself
or it destroys me.
You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your
head over pride.

And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life,
because you give in to complaining.
The only way to find yourself is
in the fires of sorrow.
Why it should be this way is immaterial.
The fact is that it is true in the Scriptures
and in human experience.

You can always recognize who has been through the fires of sorrow
and received himself,
and you know that you can go to him
in your moment of trouble
and find that he has plenty of time for you.

But if a person has not been through
the fires of sorrow,
he is apt to be contemptuous,
having no respect or time for you,
only turning you away.
If you will receive yourself
in the fires of sorrow,
God will make you nourishment
for other people.

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