“Your Best Mercies”
Spending a bit of time reviewing my commonplace books, I came across these timely words from the Prince of Preachers, rich with the figures of biblical allusion, metaphor, simile, personification and more. So grateful for the comfort and encouragement this lifetime habit affords.
You know too, that these afflictions are working for your good. They are rough waves, but they are driving your ship into port, they are blustering winds, but they make your ship scud over the briny deep into the eternal rest which remaineth for your soul. Your troubles, I tell you, are your best Mercies. Where did the Israelites get their jewels, their ear-rings, and necklaces? Why, from Egypt, from Egypt only; and so you, too, though you have lien among the pots, shall yet be as the dove whose wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
C. H. Spurgeon, "Climbing the Mountain," June 16, 1861