Asking For The Divine

 Facebook Post. May 27th, 2020.

"The life of a Christian is filled up with the interchanges of sickness and health, weakness and strength, want and wealth, disgrace and honor, crosses and comforts, miseries and mercies, joys and sorrows, mirth and mourning. All honey would harm us; all wormwood would undo us - a composition of both is the best way in the world to keep our souls in healthy constitution.. And though every wind that blows, shall blow good to the saints, yet for certain their sins die most, and their graces thrive best when they are under the frigid, drying, nipping wind of calamity, as well as under the warm, nourishing wind of mercy and prosperity.

But God, who is infinite in wisdom and matchless in goodness, has ordered troubles, yes, many troubles to come trooping in upon us on every side. As our mercies, so our crosses rarely come single; they usually come treading one upon the heels of another; they are like April showers, no sooner is one trouble over and another comes along. And yet, Christians, it is mercy, it is rich mercy, that every affliction is not an execution, that every correction is not a damnation. The higher the waves rise, the nearer Noah's ark was lifted up to heaven; the more your afflictions are increased, the more your heart is raised heavenward.

There are two things you cannot number: You cannot count your sins. And you cannot count God's blessings towards you."

~Thomas Brooks

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To ask to be spared from affliction is human.
But to ask to be cleansed from corruption, divine.