[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":4},["ShallowReactive",2],{"reading-1106":3},"NOVEMBER 6\r\nAs many as I love I rebuke and chasten (Rev. 3:19).\r\nGod takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the\r\nchoicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God.\r\nAffliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God\r\ndoes not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes\r\nupon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it\r\nis sent It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly. --Joseph Caryl.\r\n\r\nIf all my days were sunny, could I say,\r\n\"In His fair land He wipes all tears away\"?\r\nIf I were never weary, could I keep\r\nClose to my heart, \"He gives His loved ones sleep\"?\r\nWhere no graves mine, might I not come to deem The Life Eternal but a baseless dream?\r\nMy winter, and my tears, and weariness, Even my graves, may be His way to bless.\r\nI call them ills; yet that can surely be\r\nNothing but love that shows my Lord to me! --Selected.\r\n\"The most deeply taught Christians are generally those who have been brought into the searching fires of deep soul-anguish. If you\r\nhave been praying to know more of Christ do not be surprised if He takes you aside into a desert place, or leads you into a furnace of    pain.\"\r\nDo not punish me, Lord, by taking my cross from me, but comfort me by submitting me to Thy will, and by making me to love the cross.\r\nGive me that by which Thou shalt be best served ... and let me hold it for the greatest of all Thy mercies, that Thou shouldst glorify\r\nThy name in me, according to Thy will. --A Captive's Prayer.",1783499794008]