The Puritan writer Matthew Henry must be one of the most quotable of
all the Christian authors. He had an amazing ability to grab ahold of a
great text or a great doctrine and to reduce it to a few sentences that
beautifully sum it all up. Recently I went looking for what he said
about suffering, and found a few powerful quotes.
"He
never intended this world for our rest, and therefore never appointed us
to take our ease in it. This travail is given to us to make us weary of
the world and desirous of the remaining rest. It is given to us that we
may be kept in action, and may always have something to do; for we were
none of us sent into the world to be idle. Every change cuts us out
some new work, which we should be more solicitous about, than the event.
The
calamities of the righteous are preparing them for their future
blessedness, and the wicked, while their days are prolonged, are but
ripening for ruin. There is a judgment to come, which will rectify this
seeming irregularity, to the glory of God and the full satisfaction of
all his people, and we must wait with patience till then." Continue at Tim Challies
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