What we call hindrances are really the raw material of spiritual life.
As if the fire should call the coal a hindrance?
(One can imagine a little young fire, which had been getting on nicely with sticks and paper, regarding it as a mere cruelty when the big lumps were put on: never dreaming what a huge steady glow, how far surpassing its present crackling infancy, the Tender of the Fire designed when He stoked it.)
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking any thing.
James 1:2-4
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