This burden of ours!
(J.R. Miller, "Help for the Day")
This burden of ours is GOD'S gift to us--
and to lay it down would be to lay down
a blessing. Surely it is a wiser love
which puts new strength into your
heart and arm, so that you can
go on with your hard duty, your
heavy responsibility, your weight
of care, without fainting--
than would be the sentimentality
which would take all the load away,
and leave you free from any burden.
GOD'S purpose always is to make
something of us, to bring out the best
that is in us. Hence HE does not clear
the forest for us, but puts the axe into
our own hands, and bids us to cut
it down for ourselves. And while we
prepare the ground for tillage--
we grow healthy and strong
ourselves through the toil.
HE does not drive out the enemies
for us. HE puts the sword into
our own hands--
and sends us to drive them out.
The struggle does us good.
The wrestling makes us strong.
and rejoice in our sufferings, knowing
that pressure and affliction and hardship
produce patient and unswerving endurance.
And endurance develops maturity of character."
Romans 5:3-4
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