Do I?

From: Young Christian: Volume 25, 1935

“Endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ” (2 Tim. 2:3³Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. (2 Timothy 2:3)).

Do I bear patiently the afflictions and trials that God, in His providence, permits to come to me? Or do I allow myself to become discouraged and impatient under them? Do I call to mind the patient endurance of Christ under all His sufferings? And does the thought of His example sustain and encourage me, when otherwise flesh and heart might fail? If He was made perfect through suffering, can His followers expect to go to meet Him but by the road that He trod?

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