Afflictions as Friends by Rev. D. Trueman

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 2, 1882

Afflictions as Friends

By Rev. D. Trueman

WHEN afflictions overtake us, we should recognize them as friends; for on some basis in the line of God's providence they are intended for our good. If as clouds they intervene between our souls and the Sun of the spiritual world, they may have originated in the impurity of our own hearts, and, as the atmosphere by which life is sustained, would become the reservoir of death if never agitated and purified by the storms. So must our tranquility be disturbed by affliction, lest inactivity and forgetfulness of God should end in spiritual death.—Rev. D. Trueman.