More from Horatius Bonar
From "Comfort in the Night of Weeping" by Horatius Bonar
"Each pain is a nail driven through some sin, another blow inflicted on the flesh, destroying the very power of sinning....
The world and we have not yet fully parted company with each other. And, therefore, God drives affliction like a wedge between us and the world; or He sends it like a plowshare right across our most cherished hopes and brightest prospects till He thoroughly wearies us of all below. "He hath made me weary," said Job (Job. 16:7). Nor do we wonder at the complaint. Wearisome nights were His....He might well by weary. So with us. God makes us weary, too, weary all over - thoroughly weary. We get weary of a present evil world, weary of self, weary of sin, weary of suffering, weary of this mortatl body, weary of these vile hearts, weary of earth - weary of all but Jesus! Of Him no trial can weary us. Suffering only endears Him the more. Blessed suffering - that makes Him appear more precious and the world viler; that brings Him nearer to our hearts and thrusts the world away."
"Each pain is a nail driven through some sin, another blow inflicted on the flesh, destroying the very power of sinning....
The world and we have not yet fully parted company with each other. And, therefore, God drives affliction like a wedge between us and the world; or He sends it like a plowshare right across our most cherished hopes and brightest prospects till He thoroughly wearies us of all below. "He hath made me weary," said Job (Job. 16:7). Nor do we wonder at the complaint. Wearisome nights were His....He might well by weary. So with us. God makes us weary, too, weary all over - thoroughly weary. We get weary of a present evil world, weary of self, weary of sin, weary of suffering, weary of this mortatl body, weary of these vile hearts, weary of earth - weary of all but Jesus! Of Him no trial can weary us. Suffering only endears Him the more. Blessed suffering - that makes Him appear more precious and the world viler; that brings Him nearer to our hearts and thrusts the world away."