come out of the great tribulation!"
Revelation 7:14
Much of the most beautiful
Christian living in this world,
comes out of sorrow. As "fair
flowers bloom upon rough stalks"--
so many of the fairest flowers
of human life, grow upon
the rough stalk of suffering.
We take our place with the beloved
disciple John on the other side, and
we see that those who in Heaven
wear the whitest robes, and sing
the loudest songs of victory--
are those who have come out
of "great tribulation". Heaven's
highest places are filling, not
from earth's homes of glad
festivity and tearless joy--
but from . . .
its chambers of pain,
its valleys of struggle
where the battle is hard, and
its scenes of sorrow, where
pale cheeks are wet with tears,
and where hearts are broken.
troubles are achieving for us
an eternal glory that far outweighs
them all!" 2 Corinthians 4:17
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