“Pain concentrates the mind. Pain tethers you to this world, and the rope is a stout one. But at the same time, the grace of God enables you to look along the pain, to look down the entire length of the trial, and to see the purpose and point of it all” (God Rest Ye Merry, pp. 98-99).
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Would the “you” here be any reader or a particular sub classification of reader?
Could this grace be found in a nominal Christian or professing unbeliever, like say, W. Churchill?
The rope is indeed stout.
“to see the purpose and point of it all”, if so blessed. There is likely more purpose to some of our pain than we will ever see on this earth.
Perhaps our peculiar trials and experiences are preparing us for different ministries in His eternal cabinet.