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Dear Young Christian,
In a recent email I was reminded of a comment made by a brother in Christ many years ago, whose preaching I grew up under as a teenager. It was a Bible conference in Walla Walla, Washington, and the speaker was John Brereton. This is the quote: “If we had our choice of circumstances we would choose only easy ones and be the losers for it.”
How true this is, and I suppose, easy to say, but harder to accept. Our Father in His infinite wisdom has mixed the good with the bad, the hard with the easy, and the happy with the sad. It is through these different circumstances that we learn to trust Him and rely on His strength. In short, we learn that “all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose” (Romans 8:28). We would never know the loving and gracious heart of our Father if we only had the good and the sweet and not the hard and the bitter. Learn to accept, trust, and rejoice through it all, and you will be a happy believer no matter what.
Your Christian Friend,
Jim Hyland
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