p. 13 | Adversity’s Blessing

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Mar 6, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 10.

Adversity’s Blessing

Prosperity is not always good for God's children. The psalmist said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray." The Lord said to recreant Israel, "Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it." Hag. 1:9. Why was it thus?—Because of their selfishness. They sought their own and forgot God and His house and His cause. In giving them adversity, God was curing them of the worst of all evils, the curse of selfishness. Their adversity proved a blessing. God has some lesson in every providence. Let us learn to say: "Blest be the sorrow, kind the storm, that drives us nearer home."