Philemon 1:7 For we have great joy and consolation in your love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by you, brother. The Moors, five hundred years ago, occupied Granada in Spain, and if you go there today you may find traces of that occupation. But where will you find them? Their empire has fallen. Their creed has passed away. Their palaces have crumbled into dust. But you will find traces of them in the irrigating rivulets which they were the means of calling into existence. The traveller who may pass under the heights of Granada today hears the murmuring music of those beautiful streams. The men who dug them have gone; but there are these streams telling their own story and doing their own work. So let us cut channels through which God's blessing may flow. It is hard work. We have to remove the rock and the soil, but by and by others will come, and as they stoop down and drink of these beneficent streams, they will look up and say, "Thank God for the workers who have gone before!" Parallel Verses KJV: For we have great joy and consolation in thy love, because the bowels of the saints are refreshed by thee, brother. |
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