Just so, by the knocks of providence given us in affliction, we are revealed for what we really are.
Not only does affliction thus try our characters but prosperity does the same.
When we are afflicted, it is wise to watch the result upon ourselves.
Can our faith bear trial or is it a mere counterfeit?
Do we love a taking God as well as a giving God?
Do we cleave to Christ when under a cloud or is our religion only a fair-weather amusement?
Heart-searching may thus be greatly helped, and we shall run less danger of self-deception.
It will be an awful thing to be mere empty barrels, and never know it until death deals a blow with his rod of iron, and we answer to it with hollow sounds of despair!
~Charles Spurgeon~
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