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NASB | James 1:2 ¶ Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | James 1:2 ¶ Consider it nothing but joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you fall into various trials. |
Subject: lest by any means they exalt themselves |
Bible Note: "It would be a very sharp and trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity" (1) "I dare say the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness ... If some men, that I know of could only be favoured with a month of rheumatism, it would, by God's grace mellow them marvelously" (2) "I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable ... Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister's library" (3) "'Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit, saith the Lord.' Instruments shall be used, but their intrinsic weakness shall be clearly manifested; there shall be no division of the glory, no diminishing of the honor due to the Great Worker ... Those who are honoured of their Lord in public have usually to endure a secret chastening, or to carry a peculiar cross, lest by any means they exalt themselves, and fall into the snare of the devil" (4) (1) The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon, p. 25. (2) An All Round Ministry, p. 384. (3) The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon, p. 25. (4) The Anguish and Agonies of Charles Spurgeon, pp. 163-164. Charles H. Spurgeon |
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