Mark 13:19 For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created to this time… Men pray to be made "men in Christ Jesus," and think in some miraculous way it will be given to them; but God says, "I will try My child, and see if he is sincere;" and so He lays a burden upon him, and says, "Now stand up under it;" and asks, "Where are now thy resources?" If the ambitious ore dreads the furnace, the forge, the anvil, the rasp, and the file, it should never desire to be made a sword. Man is the iron, and God is the smith; and we are always either in the forge or on the anvil. God is shaping us for higher things. (H. W. Beecher.) Parallel Verses KJV: For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. |
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