| Finding the Way |
Chapter 16 |
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We dread suffering in any form. It seems to us something evil which can only work harm. Yet the truth is that many of God’s best benedictions and holiest mercies come to us in the garb of pain. We dread especially the suffering that men’s wrong or cruelty brings upon us. We resent it. But no other experience brings us so fully into companionship with Christ, for all that He suffered was unjust, and out of His untold sufferings have come all the hopes, joys and blessings of our lives.
When a great building was to be erected, an artist begged to be permitted to make one of the doors. If this could not be granted, he asked that he might make one little panel of one of the doors. Or is this, too, were denied him, he craved that he might, at least, be permitted to hold the brushes for the artist to whom the honour of doing the work should be awarded. If so small a part in a work of earth were esteemed so high a privilege, it is a far higher honour to have even the least share with Christ in His great work of human redemption. Every one who suffers any wrong patiently and sweetly, in love and trust, is working with Christ in the saving of the world.
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