JESUS CAN’T COME TODAY Sad day, sad day, Jesus can’t come today. I’ll live for today and anxious be The beast and the prophet I soon shall see. Sad day, sad day, Jesus can’t come today. Moody Bible Institute Pastor’s Conference Notes, 1990
GREAT HEARTS FROM GREAT TROUBLES Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. — C.H. Spurgeon
PUT COZY PAST BEHIND Aleksander Solzhenitsyn explains the total abandonment of all the superficials of one’s self in order to stand firm under the worst torture: “From the moment you go to prison you must put your cozy past firmly behind you. At the very threshold, you must say to yourself; ‘My life is over, …
MIRRORS OR WINDOWS If you do not trust the future to God and instead wallow in self-pity, the pictures of pain will become mirrors, and all you see will be yourself. By Warren Wiersbe
WHERE TRIBULATION COMES FROM The word “tribulation” comes from the Latin word “tribulum.” A tribulum was a heavy wooden frame with iron spikes beneath it. This frame was drawn by oxen across the threshing floor so that the grain was separated from the chaff. During this early agricultural era, a device called a tribulum was …