DAILY?READINGS: 1 Chronicles 2; Ezekiel 3:16 to 4:17; 2 Timothy 4
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Romans 8:35
This verse seems to be an example of a literary device known as a litotes—a deliberate understatement for effect. Our times of trouble, suffering, hunger, nakedness, danger and death are permitted by the Lord; not to separate us from Him but to knit us to Him; not to hide His love but to reveal it; not to disconnect us from His presence but to bond us together forever. —M. MacMullen
God never moves without purpose or plan;
When trying His servant or moulding a man,
Give thanks to the Lord tho’ your testing seems long;
In darkness He giveth a song. —Ron Hamilton