*Trials and Tribulations*
Take a piece of wax, a piece of meat, some sand, some clay, and some wood shavings, put
them on the fire and see how they react.
Each of them is being acted upon by the same agent, yet...the wax melts, the meat fries,
the sand dries up, the clay hardens, the wood shavings blaze.
Just so, under identical influence of circumstances and environment one man is made
better, and he becomes stronger, and another becomes weaker, while another withers away.
This explains why one hears the Word of God and is made better. Still another hears the
same thing and is made angry. Not so much what is done to us, but what we do, determines
our destiny. Take heed how you hear and act. |
