[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-0403":3},"APRIL 3\r\nGlorify ye the Lord in the fires (Isa. 24:15).\r\nMark the little word \"in\"! We are to honor Him in the trial-in M\r\nthat which is an affliction indeed and though there have been cases\r\nwhere God did not let His saints feel the fire, yet, ordinarily, fire hurts.\r\nBut just here we are to glorify Him by our perfect faith in His\r\ngoodness and love that has permitted all this to come upon us. And more than that we are to believe that out of this is coming\r\nsomething more for His praise than could have come but for this fiery trial.\r\nWe can only go through some fires with a large faith; little faith\r\nwill fail. We must have the victory in the furnace. --Margaret Bottome.\r\nA man has as much religion as he can show in times of trouble. The men who were cast into the fiery furnace came out as they went\r\nin--except their bonds.\r\nHow often in some furnace of affliction God strikes them off! Their bodies were unhurt--their skin not even blistered. Their hair was\r\nunsinged, their garments not scorched, and even the smell of fire had not passed upon them. And that is the way Christians should\r\ncome out of furnace trials--liberated from their bonds, but untouched by the flames.\r\n\"Triumphing over them in if \" (Col. 2:15).\r\n\r\nThat is the real triumph-triumphing over sickness, In it; triumphing over death, dying, triumphing over adverse\r\ncircumstances, in them. Oh, believe me, there is a power that can make us victors in the strife. There are heights to be reached\r\nwhere we can look down and over the way we have come, and sing our song of triumph on this side of Heaven. We can make others regard\r\nus as rich, while we are poor, and make many rich in our poverty. Our triumph is to be in it. Christ's triumph was in His\r\nhumiliation. Possibly our triumph, also, is to be made manifest in what seems to others humiliation. --Margaret Bottome.\r\nIs there not something captivating in the sight of a man or a woman burdened with many tribulations and yet carrying a heart as sound   as a bell? Is there not something contagiously valorous In the\r\nvision of one who is greatly tempted, but is more than conqueror?   Is it not heartening to see some pilgrim who is broken in body, but   who retains the splendor of an unbroken patience? What a witness all this offers to the enduement of His grace!\r\n--J. H. Jowett.\r\nWhen each earthly prop gives under,\r\nAnd life seems a restless sea,\r\nAre you then a God-kept wonder, Satisfied and calm and free?",1783499792051]