p. 2 | THE MASTER WORKER by Pentecost Herald

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Aug 6, 1902

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 28, No. 32.

THE MASTER WORKER.

By Pentecost Herald

WHAT "rough lumber" Christ has to "work up" when He gets us in hand! Do you pray to be smoothed down and made patient? Then welcome the answer, "Tribulation worketh patience." Some one has falsely accused or misjudged you. Did you get sweetness out of it, or did you consider it "entirely uncalled for," and felt so hurt that your head was bowed and your "harp hung on the willow?" If so, you have not found sweetness in the trials. God can so bless your trials for your good that you can say of persons who have been a great cross to you, O what a means of grace they are to me! and thus you can have real sweetness out of every test.

As long as you believe your trials are curses, so long will you fail to find real sweetness in them. Job's sickness and calamities came from the devil and were intended by his satanic majesty as curses, but were transformed by the creative hand of God into mighty blessings. If we are walking in the light of God, no disappointment, no sorrow, no sickness, no misunderstanding can be a curse, for "all things work together for good to them that love God."—Pentecost Herald.