"Here On Earth You Will Have Many Trials And Sorrows."

You have them because you need them!
(Letters of William Romaine, 1714-1795)

"Here on earth you will have many 
trials and sorrows." John 16:33
My dear sister,
It is but a little way and a short time, 
and we shall be at our eternal home! 
We ought every moment to be 
pressing forward. 

You will have afflictions and troubles 
along the way, and so have all GOD'S 
children. You have them because 
you need them! You could not 
grow in grace without them. 
How could you take up your 
cross and deny yourself daily--
if you did not have daily troubles? 

It is the exercise of faith to bear 
them, and to believe that GOD 
deals them out by number, weight, 
and measure. You have not one pain 
more than you stand in need of!

And further,

 "Our light affliction, which is but for 
a moment, works for us a far more 
exceeding and eternal weight of glory." 
(2 Corinthians 4:17)

If we do but attain to this glory, 
it signifies very little by what way 
we come to the attainment of it.

Think on these things, and through 
the blessing of GOD, they may help 
to make you see and feel that 
the way of suffering is the royal 
way to the kingdom.

We shall soon meet in our FATHER'S 
Kingdom, and inherit all that JESUS 
purchased for us!

I commend you to GOD and to 
the riches of HIS grace, praying 
HIM to do for you exceedingly 
abundantly above all that you 
can ask or think.

"Your brother and companion 
in the suffering and kingdom and 
patient endurance that are ours 
in JESUS" Revelation 1:9 

I remain, your loving brother,
William Romaine

"Every trial comes from the hand 
of GOD! That is our comfort.
 When we are obedient, HE sends 
 trials to purify us.
 When we are disobedient, 
HE sends trials to chasten us."

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Arthur Pink "Profiting from the Word" 
Chapter 3. The Knowledge of God