In Each Event, There Is Wrapped Up A Divine Treasure Of Good And Blessing For The Child Of GOD!

The stone was a diamond!
(J.R. Miller, "The Glory of the Commonplace")

One of the great diamond fields in South Africa 

was discovered in this interesting way: 

One day a traveler entered the valley, 

and paused before a settler's door where 

a boy was amusing himself by throwing 

stones. One of the stones fell at the feet 

of the visitor; and he picked it up, and 

was about to return it to the boy when 

he saw a flash of light from it which 

arrested his attention, and made 

his heart beat with eager surprise. 

The stone was a diamond! 

The boy had no thought of its value; 

to him it was only a plaything. But 

to the eye of the man of knowledge, 

a gem of surprising value was 

unfolded in the rough covering!

So it is that many of the events 

of Divine Providence appear to ordinary 

eyes as uninteresting, without meaning, 

ofttimes as even unkindly, adverse. 

Yet in each event, there is wrapped up 

a divine treasure of good and blessing 

for the child of GOD! 

We need only eyes of Christian faith 

to find in every painful experience, 

a helper to our spiritual lives. 

Precious gems of rarest blessing 

are enclosed in the rough crusts 

of hardship, affliction, loss, and trial, 

which we are constantly coming upon 

in our life's way. We shall find when 

we get to our Heavenly home, that 

many of the things from which we have 

shrunk as evils, have been the bearers 

to us of our richest treasures of good!

"And we know that GOD causes all things 
to work together for good to those who love 
GOD, to those who are called according 
to HIS purpose!" Romans 8:28

  
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GraceGems has published J.R. Miller's helpful two page article, 
"Beautiful Old Age".