[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1024":3},"OCTOBER 24\r\nI will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument ([so. 41:15).\r\nA bar of steel worth five dollars, when wrought into horseshoes, is\r\nworth ten dollars. If made into needles, it is worth three hundred and fifty dollars; if into penknife blades, it is worth thirty-two\r\nthousand dollars; if into springs for watches it is worth two\r\nhundred and fifty thousand dollars. What a drilling the poor bar\r\nmust 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.\r\nMay this parable help us to be silent still, and longsuffering.\r\nThose who suffer most are capable of yielding most and it is\r\nthrough pain that God is getting the most out of us, for His glory and the blessing of others. --Selected.\r\nOh, give Thy servant patience to be still, And bear Thy will;\r\nCourage to venture wholly on the arm That will not harm;\r\nThe wisdom that will never let me stray Out of my way;\r\nThe love that, now afflicting, knoweth best When I should rest.\r\nLife is very mysterious. Indeed it would be inexplicable unless we  believed that God was preparing us for scenes and ministries that\r\nhe beyond the veil of sense in the eternal world, where\r\nhighly-tempered spirits will be required for special service.\r\n\"The turning-lathe that has the sharpest knives produces the finest work.\"",1783499793971]