"The pressure of hard places makes us value life. Every time
our life is given back to us from such a trial, it is like a new beginning, and
we learn better how much it is worth and make more of it for God and man. The
pressure helps us to understand the trials of others, and fits us to help and
sympathize with them.
There is a shallow, superficial nature, that gets hold of
a theory or a promise lightly, and talks very glibly about the distrust of
those who shrink from every trial; but the man or woman who has suffered much
never does this, but is very tender and gentle, and knows what suffering really
means. This is what Paul meant when he said “Death worketh in you.”
Trials and hard places are needed to press us forward,
even as the furnace fires in the hold of that mighty ship give force that moves
the piston, drives the engine and propels that great vessel across the sea in
the face of the wind and waves" (A.B. Simpson).
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