Breakfast on the Beach – Entry 6

Trials of Life.
I tried to write something on faith and trials, but this is better.

“Faith untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials. Faith never prospers so well as when all things are against her: tempests are her trainers, and lightnings are her illuminators. When a calm reigns on the sea, spread the sails as you will, the ship moves not to its harbour; for on a slumbering ocean the keel sleeps too. Let the winds rush howling forth, and let the waters lift up themselves, then, though the vessel may rock, and her deck may be washed with waves, and her mast may creak under the pressure of the full and swelling sail, it is then that she makes headway towards her desired haven….Faith is precious, and its trial is precious too.”

CH Spurgeon, Morning, November 12.

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Breakfast on the beach is a weekly web posting of ideas, images, and expressions aimed to refresh, refill and refocus. Have breakfast on the beach with Christ at least once a week. He will restore you, refresh you and refill you as only He can. – Christian Buckley
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