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"... These are they who have come out of great suffering ..." In Romans 5:3 the Apostle Paul asserts that "suffering produces endurance, endurance produces character, character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us." They who have come out of great suffering have come through a refinement process. (It doesn't always happen this way, but it always can, if we let it.)
When Fanny Crosby was a small child, a physician's blunder put her blind. In blindness she lived more than 90 years, and in blindness she wrote thousands of hymns and poems, exalting Christ and bearing witness to the greatness and goodness of God. In 1906, when she was 86, Fanny Crosby wrote the story of her life. In that story she speaks of the doctor who caused her blindness. She writes: "I have heard that this physician never ceased to express his regret for the occurrence; and that it was one of the sorrows of his life." Then she goes on to say, "Although it may have been a blunder on the physician's part, it was no mistake on God's."
Out of her blindness Fanny Crosby grew in depth of spirit and insight, and as a result, as she herself believed, was able to give us hymns and poems that never would have come into being without that affliction.
- Mann
When Fanny Crosby was a small child, a physician's blunder put her blind. In blindness she lived more than 90 years, and in blindness she wrote thousands of hymns and poems, exalting Christ and bearing witness to the greatness and goodness of God. In 1906, when she was 86, Fanny Crosby wrote the story of her life. In that story she speaks of the doctor who caused her blindness. She writes: "I have heard that this physician never ceased to express his regret for the occurrence; and that it was one of the sorrows of his life." Then she goes on to say, "Although it may have been a blunder on the physician's part, it was no mistake on God's."
Out of her blindness Fanny Crosby grew in depth of spirit and insight, and as a result, as she herself believed, was able to give us hymns and poems that never would have come into being without that affliction.
- Mann
