[Manna - April 28]
We glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope: and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which is given unto us. Romans 5:3-5
WE have need of patience, and that can only be
gained by trials.
We have need of faith, and that
can only be developed by necessities.
We have need
of experience for our future work, which can be gained
only by such experiences which permit us to be
touched with a feeling of the infirmities and difficulties
and trials of those about us, to whom we shall be
ministers and representatives when we reach the
throne.
For us, then, the lesson of present experiences
is to resist evil,—and not with evil but with
good. Z.'03-348 R3238:6