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Fashioned In The Fire
Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Scripture References:
Philippians 1:29
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Title: Fashioned In The Fire
"Unto you it is given . . .to suffer" (Phil.
1:29).
God keeps a costly school. Many of its lessons
are spelled out through tears. Richard Baxter
said, "O God, I thank Thee for a bodily
discipline of eight and fifty years"; and he is
not the only man who has turned a trouble into
triumph.
This school of our Heavenly Father will soon
close for us; the term time is shortening every
day. Let us not shrink from a hard lesson or
wince under any rod of chastisement. The richer
will be the crown, and the sweeter will be
Heaven, if we endure cheerfully to the end and
graduate in glory.--Theodore L. Cuyler
The finest china in the world is burned at least
three times, some of it more than three times.
Dresden china is always burned three times. Why
does it go through that intense fire? Once ought
to be enough; twice ought to be enough. No, three
times are necessary to burn that china so that
the gold and the crimson are brought out more
beautiful and then fastened there to stay.
We are fashioned after the same principle in
human life. Our trials are burned into us once,
twice, thrice; and by God's grace these beautiful
colors are there and they are there to stay
forever.--Cortland Myers
Earth's fairest flowers grow not on sunny plain,
But where some vast upheaval rent in twain The
smiling land . . . .
After the whirlwinds devastating blast,
After the molten fire and ashen pall,
God's still small voice breathes healing over
all.
From riven rocks and fern-clad chasms deep,
Flow living waters as from hearts that weep,
There in the afterglow soft dews distill
And angels tend God's plants when night falls
still,
And the Beloved passing by that way
Will gather lilies at the break of day.--J.H.D.
This classic devotional is the unabridged edition of
Streams in the Desert. This first edition was published
in 1925 and the wording is preserved as originally
written. Connotations of words may have changed over the
years and are not meant to be offensive.
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Author: Mrs. Charles E. Cowman
Devotion: Streams in the Desert
Scripture References:
Philippians 1:29
Do you enjoy this devotional? Send it on to a friend!
____________________________________________________________
Title: Fashioned In The Fire
"Unto you it is given . . .to suffer" (Phil.
1:29).
God keeps a costly school. Many of its lessons
are spelled out through tears. Richard Baxter
said, "O God, I thank Thee for a bodily
discipline of eight and fifty years"; and he is
not the only man who has turned a trouble into
triumph.
This school of our Heavenly Father will soon
close for us; the term time is shortening every
day. Let us not shrink from a hard lesson or
wince under any rod of chastisement. The richer
will be the crown, and the sweeter will be
Heaven, if we endure cheerfully to the end and
graduate in glory.--Theodore L. Cuyler
The finest china in the world is burned at least
three times, some of it more than three times.
Dresden china is always burned three times. Why
does it go through that intense fire? Once ought
to be enough; twice ought to be enough. No, three
times are necessary to burn that china so that
the gold and the crimson are brought out more
beautiful and then fastened there to stay.
We are fashioned after the same principle in
human life. Our trials are burned into us once,
twice, thrice; and by God's grace these beautiful
colors are there and they are there to stay
forever.--Cortland Myers
Earth's fairest flowers grow not on sunny plain,
But where some vast upheaval rent in twain The
smiling land . . . .
After the whirlwinds devastating blast,
After the molten fire and ashen pall,
God's still small voice breathes healing over
all.
From riven rocks and fern-clad chasms deep,
Flow living waters as from hearts that weep,
There in the afterglow soft dews distill
And angels tend God's plants when night falls
still,
And the Beloved passing by that way
Will gather lilies at the break of day.--J.H.D.
This classic devotional is the unabridged edition of
Streams in the Desert. This first edition was published
in 1925 and the wording is preserved as originally
written. Connotations of words may have changed over the
years and are not meant to be offensive.
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