Quote of the Day

"Afflictions are always painful, and days of afflictions are often gloomy. But as we are training for eternity, as we are maturing for Heaven, and as afflictions are necessary discipline, we must be afflicted. If chastisement were not necessary, then our loving Father would never use the rod. But as every one of us needs correction, He chastens every son whom He receives. God's chastisements are intended for our instruction - they are designed to teach us the evil of sin, our need of grace, the holiness of God, the preciousness of Jesus, the emptiness of the world, and the blessedness of Heaven. These are lessons of the deepest importance to us - lessons that we are slow to learn; and therefore, we must have line upon line, and stroke upon stroke."
                - James Smith 

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