Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1913-08-28
CROSS MADE LIGHT
No Trouble That Is Unbearable
Can Come to His Children
Who Trust Him.

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4 able trouble? Carl Hilty says there
is: "One can bear all troubles but
two-worry and sim" Now. it is
well TO realize that those two unbear-
able troubles are unnecessary. Neither
worry nor sin has to be continued.
Both can be ended by the large draft
on the sovereign goodness of God.
which he is always ready to honor. As
for other troubles, no one of them is
unbearable. We are always surprised
to see how much we can bear.
Most of us who seek to be wise
would not look ahead ten years IL we
could. 1t would be impossible to bear
the revelation of what will come to US
in decade. That would be putting
the load of ten years on us In one
day. In Gods plan our experiences
come to us gradually. Very few
troubles come like lightning ONT of a
clear sky. There are always clouds.
and before the bolt falls there are
flashes enough to prepare US some
what for the shock The cross is not
laid upon our shoulders full weight at
once. Rather, it comes down so slow
ly that those who must carry IL can
accommodate themselves to the load.
God tempers the wind to the shorn
lamb. SO that It can stand the next
wind. A shorn lamb never stays
shorn The vital forces begin at once
to prepare It for the cold of the next
winter. 1t is in part this graduainess
of Gods dealing with US that makes
trouble bearable.
There Is much help also in settling
down quietly to the assurance that
we are never to be broken by our
troubles. There is no way of escap-
ing them. 1t is not meant that we
should be untroubled in this sense of
the word. But 1t is assured that the
wise hand that let's trouble come to
US is also a strengthening hand that
sustains US in trouble. II will bear
saying over and over that there Is no
promise to keep us from passing
through the waters. The only promise
is that they shall not overflow us. We
are not told that we shall not pass
shall not kindle upon us. When we
are told to cast our burden upon the
Lord, 1t is not said that he will take
the burden away, but only that he
Will sustain us. We may go our way
bearing the burden, but we shall not
fall under 1t while we count 1t his bur
den given to us.
Nothing Ever Unbeatable.
There Ia then no unbearable trouble
which cannot be avoided. There are
troubles that strain us 20 the utmost.
and that we would say beforehand
could not be borne. They do hot fall
on us unawares, however. II we have
not expected them, we have right to
realize that God knew they were com.
ing. God is never taken unawares
II he was the only one who could fore.
see them, then we have especial right
to expect him to brace us to bear
them. We could not be ready, there.
fore he must help US, unready. Most
of US remember in driving through the
country that hill always looks steep
er from across the valley than 1t
proves when we come to its base and
begin the ascent Most of our troubles
look far more serious to us ahead
then they prove to be when we come
to them. Sometimes we do not come
to them at all; our road turns aside
before we come to the steep hill.
Sometimes we come to them just as
we expected, but we always take them
inch by inch, and we go our way
through them In a strength which
proves sufficient.
AS our days our strength proves
We do not have strength for decade
today, but by the end of the decade
decades strength has been doled out
to US. There is nothing to fear In the
future. There Is not water there
deep enough to drown us, and no fire
hot enough to burn US, and no burden
heavy enough to crush Us, because as
we go into the future, Christ will be
by US and bring us safely through.
We could not bear the troubles, but
he and we can bear them all
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