Streams in the Desert October 24 Daily Devotional

I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument ([so. 41:15).
A bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is
worth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two
thousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar
must undergo to be worth this! But the more it is manipulated, the more It is hammered, and passed through the fire, and beaten and pounded and polished, the greater the value.
May this parable help us to be silent still, and longsuffering.
Those who suffer most are capable of yielding most and it is
through pain that God is getting the most out of us, for His glory and the blessing of others. --Selected.
Oh, give Thy servant patience to be still, And bear Thy will;
Courage to venture wholly on the arm That will not harm;
The wisdom that will never let me stray Out of my way;
The love that, now afflicting, knoweth best When I should rest.
Life is very mysterious. Indeed it would be inexplicable unless we believed that God was preparing us for scenes and ministries that
he beyond the veil of sense in the eternal world, where
highly-tempered spirits will be required for special service.
"The turning-lathe that has the sharpest knives produces the finest work."