Day 3 - Tuesday - Today's Devotions - Logos
Morning, March 8 Go To Evening Reading “We must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.” —Acts 14:22 God’s people have their trials. God never designed it when he chose his people, that they should be untried people. They were selected in the furnace of affliction; they were never chosen to worldly peace and earthly joy. Freedom from sickness and the pains of mortality was never promised to them. Still, when their Lord drew up the charter of privileges, he included chastisements amongst the things to which they should inevitably be heirs. Trials are a part of our lot; they predestinated us in Christ’s last legacy. So indeed, as the stars are fashioned by his hands, and their orbits fixed by him, so indeed are our trials allotted to us: he has ordained their season and their place, their intensity and the effect they shall have upon us. Good men must never expect to escape troubles; they will be disappointed if they do, for none of their predecessors have be...