For Our Light Affliction, Is But For A Moment.

These short-lived troubles!

(Charles Spurgeon, "Flowers from a Puritan's Garden" 1883)

"All the difficulties of the present life 

are but like one rainy day--

compared to an everlasting sunshine!"

How readily, then, should we bear 

these short-lived troubles! 

They are but for a moment, 

just a passing shower--

and then the sun will shine out forever! 

Time is nothing, when compared with eternity.

To a believer, this sorrowful life is like 

one drop of grief, lost in a sea of glory--

or one speck of rain, in a year of fair 

weather. These light and momentary 

afflictions are not worthy to be compared 

with the eternal bliss which awaits us!

"Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though 
our outward man is perishing, yet the inward 
man is being renewed day by day. For our light 
affliction, which is but for a moment, is working 
for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory!" 
2 Corinthians 4:16-17 

  
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"God, the Refuge of His People!"