Testimonies for the Church, Volume 2 - Ellen G. White

passages of Scripture expressing the never-failing
love of God, and giving evidence that His lovingkindness
changeth not! Your soul trusted in God. It
was your meat and drink to do the will of your
heavenly Father. At times you had a firm trust in
the promises of God, and then, again, your faith
would be tried to the utmost. God's dealings
seemed mysterious, yet most of the time you had
the evidence that He looked upon your affliction
and would not cause your burdens to be greater
than you could bear.
The Master saw that you needed a fitness for
His heavenly kingdom. He did not leave you in the
furnace for the fire of affliction to consume. As a
refiner and purifier of silver, He kept His eye upon
you, watching the process of purification until He
should discern His image reflected in you.
Although you have often felt affliction's flame
kindling upon you, and at times have thought it
would consume you, yet the loving-kindness of
God has been just as great toward you at these
times as when you were free in spirit and
triumphing in Him. The furnace was to purify and
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