{"id":18,"date":"2004-06-10T08:06:25","date_gmt":"2004-06-10T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=18"},"modified":"2004-06-10T08:06:25","modified_gmt":"2004-06-10T15:06:25","slug":"108684412761752383","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/108684412761752383\/","title":{"rendered":"108684412761752383"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From J. C. Ryle, &#8220;The Gospel of John&#8221;, via www.gracegems.org<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.&#8221; Hebrews 12:11<\/p>\n<p>Affliction is one of God&#8217;s medicines!<\/p>\n<p>By it He often teaches lessons which would be learned in no other way. By it He often draws souls away from sin and the world, which would otherwise have perished everlastingly.<\/p>\n<p>Health is a great blessing\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut sanctified disease is a greater.  Prosperity and worldly comfort, are what all naturally desire\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut losses and crosses are far better for us\u00e2\u20ac\u201dif they lead us to Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Let us beware of murmuring in the time of trouble. Let us settle it firmly in our minds, that there is a meaning, a &#8216;needs be&#8217;, and a message from God\u00e2\u20ac\u201din every sorrow that falls upon us.<\/p>\n<p>There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.  There is no commentary that opens up the Bible so much as sickness and sorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The resurrection morning will prove, that many of the losses of God&#8217;s people were in reality, eternal gains.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands at the last day, will testify with David\u00e2\u20ac\u201d&#8221;It is good for me that I have been afflicted!&#8221; Psalm. 119:71<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From J. C. Ryle, &#8220;The Gospel of John&#8221;, via www.gracegems.org &#8220;No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.&#8221; Hebrews 12:11 Affliction is one of God&#8217;s medicines! By it He often teaches lessons which would be\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2004\/06\/10\/108684412761752383\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}