Inspirational of the Day

Trouble Redeemed

By Dr. Robert Schuller

So often trouble is only a part of the painful growing process like a seed buried alive by a seemingly merciless fate under suffocating ground in a windowless grave, until in supreme agony it ruptures into a new life! This death, burial, pain, is not trouble! It is the travail of new birth! "Unless a grain of wheat fall into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain" (John 12:24).

When trouble breaks your heart and makes your knees buckle, and forces penitent tears from eyes sealed in prayer to Almighty God, then trouble may turn out to be the redeeming agony before new birth!

Just what kind of people do you think we would be if we never had any trouble! For we build hard muscles in heart and body when we lift heavy loads. Tough times make calluses that may someday save our hands from bleeding!