See then what encouragement here is to become the godly. All things shall work for good. Oh, that this may induce the world to fall in love with religion! Can there be a greater lodestone to piety? Can anything more prevail with us to be good, than this; all things shall work for our good? Religion is the true philosopher's stone that turns everything into gold. Take the sourest part of religion, the suffering part, and there is comfort in it. God sweetens suffering with joy; He candies our wormwood with sugar. Oh, how may this bribe us to godliness!How sweet it is.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The true philosopher's stone
I've been reading All Things for Good by Thomas Watson this afternoon. It is a book that expounds Romans 8:28. After discussing the fact that every seeming evil that befalls us, God always turns for our good, he says:
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Indeed it is!
This reminds me of something I read in C.S. Lewis', Mere Christianity. He says that when troubles come to us, "...God is forcing him (man) on, or up, to a higher level: putting him into situations where he will have to be very much braver, or mor patient, or more loving.......It all seems unnecessary: but that is because we have not yet had the slightest notion of the tremendous thing He means to make of us."
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