Pastor Tommy Nelson talked about Allie Miller, a businessman in his church who established the church’s tape library. He was about sixty years old when he died of prostate cancer. Before he died, Allie told Nelson that the greatest thing that ever happened to him—other than knowing Jesus Christ—was cancer.
Allie came to know the Lord when he was a little boy, but he said, “I used Him as my Savior.” He said, “When you have a death pronouncement given to you, you don’t have to take it by faith that you’re going to die. Now all that stuff you’ve been saying all those years about laying up your treasures takes on real meaning.”
Trials have a very beneficial purpose. Trials purify you. Trials make you trust. Trials make everything you hear in Sunday School become real.
In chapter 7 of Ecclesiastes, Solomon says that hard times are not always the worst thing. That’s when bad is better.
Our culture is similar to Solomon’s. Most people go through life looking to have a good time.
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