On Christ's Cross
Consider that all your afflictions troubles and trials shall work for your good. Rom 8:28
That scouring and rubbing which frets others shall make them shine the brighter; and that weight which crushes and keeps others under, shall be make them, like the palm tree, grow better and higher; and that hammer which knocks others all in pieces, shall but knock them the nearer to Christ, the corner stone. Stars shine brightest in the darkest night; torches give the best light when beaten; grapes yield most wine when most pressed; spices smell sweetest when pounded; vines are the better for bleeding; gold looks the brighter for scouring; junper smells sweetest in the fire; chamonile the more you tread it the more you spread it; the salamander lives best in the fire, the jews were best when most afflicted; the Athenians would never mend, till they wer in mourning; the Christ’s cross, saith Luther, is no letter in the book, and yet, saith he, it hath taught me more than all the letters in the book. Grace shines the brighter for scouring, and is most glorious when it is most clouded. Thomas Brooks–Mute Christian under the smarting rod
On Job's Sinful Infirmities
Question: Might not God have kept Job from [these] infirmities and would it not have been more for God’s honour? Answ: God works his end in Job’s trial more by letting his infirmities [appear]. 1. because the more Job’s infirmities [appear], and that like a spate or flood of waters, the more [appears] his grace in Job that is not drowned with it. The messenger of Satan is sent to buffet Paul (2 Cor 12:7) and his weakness must kyth, that God’s grace over passion is mre than if his passion had not broken out. 2. The Lord gains his end better, because as he had one end before him, to stop Satan’s mouth, so he had this end, to let Job and all his children know what they hold of him, and how he will have them in his reverence. Therefore the best of the Saints with Jacob have a halt [limp], that they may know the strength whereby they stand, and to whom they are obliged for the victory. 3. God’s end was not only that Job may have the victory being tried, but that he might b e a pattern to these that should come after, and therefore he will have his infirmities to kyth, and yet do them away, and give him the victory: bring him to the brink of despair, and yet uphold him, and give him an outgate [deliverance], that other saints may not be discouraged or despair though their condition should be like his. And often Job’s infirmities [appearing], have proven as comfortable to the people of God as his patience and other graces. James Durham–Lectures on Job
Christ’s Cross
Consider that all your afflictions troubles and trials shall work for your good. Rom 8:28
That scouring and rubbing which frets others shall make them shine the brighter; and that weight which crushes and keeps others under, shall be make them, like the palm tree, grow better and higher; and that hammer which knocks others all in pieces, shall but knock them the nearer to Christ, the corner stone. Stars shine brightest in the darkest night; torches give the best light when beaten; grapes yield most wine when most pressed; spices smell sweetest when pounded; vines are the better for bleeding; gold looks the brighter for scouring; junper smells sweetest in the fire; chamonile the more you tread it the more you spread it; the salamander lives best in the fire, the jews were best when most afflicted; the Athenians would never mend, till they wer in mourning; the Christ’s cross, saith Luther, is no letter in the book, and yet, saith he, it hath taught me more than all the letters in the book. Grace shines the brighter for scouring, and is most glorious when it is most clouded. Thomas Brooks–Mute Christian under the smarting rod
About
Nothing much to tell. I’m walking a single solitary pilgrims walk, in England, that is not an easy one. I am a Calvinistic Covenanter Christian, My Autonomic Nervous system is failing slowly, which has led to severe disability, with an ultra rare disease than medics don’t even understand, often misdiagnose.and will no doubt kill me at some point. But, I trust the Lord to get me where I’m going. All glory to HIM.
The symptomology listed on the link, most porphyrics will only have most of those symptoms if in an acute attack. A few of us, with the ongoing, smouldering symptoms, that never go away, have most if not all of the symptom list, even when not in an acute attack, and are persistent and constant. Anyone who has ever been in the psychiactric system, diagnosed as this or that, even if physically well, should consider this illness could be responsible. King George III, the most famous porphyric, his sole symptom was “insanity.” Its so rare in part, because it’s massively under-diagnosed. But in making this illness known, when it struck me physically a few years ago, God vindicated me from every mis-diagnoses and bersmirchment upon me medically that has ever been made, and has made them all null and void.
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