As Christ learnt, so must we. If it was necessary
for Him who know no sin, how much more for us who have sins enough and to
spare. Though He was the eternal Son of God, yet He learnt obedience by
the things which He suffered. Though we are God's adopted children, we
must learn obedience by what we suffer. He had to offer up prayer with
strong crying. So shall we have to do again and again before we die. He
was heard in that He feared God, and said, "Father not my will, but Thine
be done." And so shall we. He was perfected by sufferings. God grant
that we may be so likewise. He had to do like us. God grant that we may
do like Him.
God grant it. That is all I can say. I cannot be sure of it, for myself
or for any of you. I can only hope, and trust in God. Life is hard
work--any life at least which is worth being called life, which is not
the life of a swine, who thinks of nothing but feeding himself, or of a
butterfly which thinks of nothing but enjoying itself. Those are easy
lives enough: but the end thereof is death. The swine goes to the
slaughter.
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