The Trial is Precious, Too!

This exerpt is from one of my favorite morning devotionals. I know it is kind of lengthy, but it was so encouraging to me the other morning. So please read and be blessed!

"Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering ocean the keep sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure of the full and swelling sail, tis then that she makes headway towards her desired haven. No flowers wear so lovely a blue as those which grow at the foot of the frozen glacier; no stars gleam so brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky; no water tastes so sweet as that which springs amid the desert sand; and no faith is so previous as that which lives in triumphs in adversity. Tried faith brings experience. You could not have believed your own weakness if you had not been compelled to pass through the rivers and you would never have known God's strength had you not been supported amid the water-floods. Faith increases in solidity, assurance, and intensity, the more it is exercised in tribulation. Faith is precious, and its trial is precious, too."

-Charles Hadden Spurgeon -

From the morning reading on November 12th of his book entitled Morning and Evening.