Emphasis Preaching Journal
If we're alive in this...
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If we're alive in this world, we know that at times we're going to have to go through some
suffering -- everyone does. E. Stanley Jones, in his book Christ and Human
Suffering, says:
We see that the universe had to be hard. But it is not "a vale of tears;" rather, it is "a vale of character-making;" and character cannot be made except in the strain and stress and struggle. We cannot cry out and say, "Why hast thou made me thus?" for [the Lord] hasn't "made" us yet, he's only in the process.
We see that the universe had to be hard. But it is not "a vale of tears;" rather, it is "a vale of character-making;" and character cannot be made except in the strain and stress and struggle. We cannot cry out and say, "Why hast thou made me thus?" for [the Lord] hasn't "made" us yet, he's only in the process.
