"When we reach heaven, we may discover that the richest and deepest and most profitable experiences we had in this world were those which were gained in the very roads from which we shrank back with dread. The bitter cups we tried to push away contained the medicines we most needed. The hardest lessons that we learn are those which teach us the most and best fit us for service here and glory hereafter...
To all my readers who are wondering why a loving God has subjected them so often to the furnace, my only answer is, that God owns you and me, and He has a right to do with us just as He pleases. If He wants to keep His silver over a hot flame until He can see His own countenance reflected in the metal, then He has a right to do so. It is the Lord, it is my loving Teacher, it is my Heavenly Father; let Him do what seemeth Him good. he will not lay on one stroke in cruelty, or a single one that cannot give me grace to bear. Life's school days and nights will soon be over. Pruning-time will soon be ended. The crucibles will not be needed in heaven. "
-Theodore L. Cuyler
To all my readers who are wondering why a loving God has subjected them so often to the furnace, my only answer is, that God owns you and me, and He has a right to do with us just as He pleases. If He wants to keep His silver over a hot flame until He can see His own countenance reflected in the metal, then He has a right to do so. It is the Lord, it is my loving Teacher, it is my Heavenly Father; let Him do what seemeth Him good. he will not lay on one stroke in cruelty, or a single one that cannot give me grace to bear. Life's school days and nights will soon be over. Pruning-time will soon be ended. The crucibles will not be needed in heaven. "
-Theodore L. Cuyler
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