PROMISE FOR AUGUST 23RD

"It is a faithful saying: for if we be dead with Him, we shall also live with Him: if we suffer, we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us." 2 Tim. 2:11,12

Others interpret the trials of life as evidences of Divine disfavor, and fail to realize that they are designed of the Lord to shape and polish our characters and thus to work out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. Because of their misunderstanding they are profited little by many of life's experiences through which they are called to pass--they feel the rod, but not discerning the loving purpose behind it, they fail to learn the lesson intended....It is not enough that we have tasted of the brook of experiences, that we have learned something of obedience...endured some trials, that on some occasions we have learned obedience through the things we have suffered; we must continue drinking until we can gladly say--Father, Thy will, not ours be done! R2936,c1,p4,2