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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>2009-06-25
- “RECEIVING YOURSELF IN THE FIRES OF SORROW”</b></p>
<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="center"><b>(From
“My Utmost for His Highest” - Oswald Chambers)</b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left">“<b>...
what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour? But for this
purpose I came to this hour. 'Father, glorify Your name' ” - John
12:27-28 (12:20-36). </b>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b>As a
saint of God, my attitude toward sorrow and difficulty should not be
to ask that they be prevented, but to ask that God protect me so that
I may remain what He created me to be, in spite of all my fires of
sorrow. Our Lord received Himself, accepting His position and
realizing His purpose, in the midst of the fire of sorrow. He was
saved not <i>from</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> the hour, but
</span><i>out</i><span style="font-style: normal;"> of the hour.</span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><span style="font-style: normal;">We
say that there ought to be no sorrow, but there </span><span style="font-style: normal;"><u>is</u></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If
we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish.
Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in
saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering </span></span><i><span style="text-decoration: none;">are</span></i><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing
them.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><b><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">Sorrow
removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not
always make the person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or
it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success,
because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive
yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in
to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of
sorrow. Why it should be this way is immaterial. The fact is that it
is true in the Scriptures and in human experience. You can always
recognize who has been through the fires of sorrow and received
himself, and you know that you can go to him in your moment of
trouble and find that he has plenty of time for you. But if a person
has not been through the fires of sorrow, he is apt to be
contemptuous, having no respect or time for you, only turning you
away. If you will receive yourself in the fires of sorrow, God will
make you nourishment for other people.</span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></span><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Brother
Yun, “The Heavenly Man”, experienced tremendous suffering in
China for his bold witness for Jesus Christ. He was persecuted,
beaten, jailed, brought to the very point of death - as well as those
associated with him - including his family. In the beginning he
complained to God, until the Lord Himself clearly pointed out the
truth in the above message by Chambers.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Paul
Hattaway wrote the biography on the remarkable true story of Chinese
Christian Brother Yun published by Monarch Books, 2002, in the US.
(Distributed by Kregel Publications, PO Box 2607, Grand Rapids,
Michigan 49501)</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">The
book of Job in the Bible deals with this same subject. Oswald
Chambers wrote “Baffled to Fight Better,” a series of sermons to
British troops in World War I - in this book showing how suffering
made a good man better.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">Young
or old, those who are serious for life and God, all are appointed to
suffering. The above reading on ”Receiving Yourself in the Fires of
Suffering” is an absolute necessity for such. There are </span></span></span><u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="">no</span></span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="">
exceptions. Understand, accept and live through this insight, and you
are destined to become profitable both in life and the Kingdom of
God. - J.A.W.</span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0in;" align="left"><u><b><span style="font-style: normal;">NOTE
TWO</span></b></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;"><b>:
</b></span></span><b><u><span style="font-style: normal;">Correction
- </span></u><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
On Thursday June 18</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">,
I mailed out a prayer purported to be given by Billy Graham. Several
friends alerted me to the fact that this is a misnomer. It was
delivered by a preacher to the House of Representatives some 10 years
previously, and several Democrats walked out of the meeting to
express their disapproval. Actually, the true story is perhaps more
startling than the fiction. <<a href="http://www.snopes.com/">www.snopes.com</a>>
gives the full and true story. Please accept my apologies and forgive
me for failing to check with “Snopes” first. This is perhaps the
3</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">rd</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
or 4</span></span><sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">th</span></span></sup><span style="font-style: normal;"><span style="text-decoration: none;">
time I have been caught in this type of error. Again - “To err is
human; - to forgive is divine.”</span></span></b></p>
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