Fires Of Sorrow

                                                John 27:28
                  "What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour?"

         My attitude as a Christian to sorrow and difficulty is not to ask that they be prevented, but to ask that I may preserve the self,  God created me to be through every fire of sorrow.  Our Lord received Himself in the fire of sorrow, He was not saved from the hour, but out of the hour.  We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but there is sorrow, and we have to receive ourselves  in it's fires.  If we try and evade sorrow, refuse to lay our account with it, we are foolish.  Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life; it is no use saying sorrow ought not to be.  Sin and sorrow and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.
        Sorrow burns up a great amount of shallowness, but it does not always make a man better.  Suffering either gives me my self or it destroys my self.  You cannot receive your self in success, you lose your head; you cannot receive your self in inflection, you complain.  The way to find your self is in the fires of sorrow.  Why it should be so is another matter, but that it is so true in the Scriptures and in human experience.  You always know the man who has been through the fires of sorrow and received Himself, you are certain you can go to Him in trouble and find that he has ample leisure for you.  If a man has not been through the fires of sorrow, he is apt to be scornful, he has no time for you.  If you receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will make you nourishment for other people.  

                                        May God Bless You
                                         And Your Families

                                                        Minister: Robert A. Lail
                                                        The Cross Life Ministry