Suffering Reveals What Is In Our Hearts
Suffering often occurs at the hand of others.
But it has a way of revealing what is in our own
hearts.
Capacities for love, mercy, anger, envy, and pride
can lie dormant until awakened by circumstances.
Strength and weakness of heart is found not when
everything is going our way but when flames of
suffering and temptation test the mettle of our
character.
As gold and silver are refined by fire, and as coal
needs time and pressure to become a diamond, the
human heart is revealed and developed by
enduring the pressure and heat of time and
circumstance.
Strength of character is shown not when all is well
with our world but in the presence of human pain
and suffering
(Job 42:1-17; Romans 5:3-5; James 1:2-5; 1 Peter
1:6-8).a