Thinking, praying, reading, studying the Bible – when we do these things, we are reflecting on the Word of God. To reflect is to contemplate and/or consider, and God wants us to deeply reflect on His Word so that we can better understand Him.
Suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit. – Romans 5:3-5.
God is daily searching us, sifting us, trying us to bring out the evil that is in us, that we may know ourselves, and that He may have fresh opportunities of bringing out all His supplies and resources. He brings us, as He did Israel, into danger, poverty, sorrow, and care that He may get opportunities of displaying all His love and fullness. Let us not grudge Him these; they will soon be at an end. It is only here, on this sad, poor earth, that He can have such opportunities. When we reach the Kingdom, our sin and emptiness, and weakness, and grief will be done. It is only now and here that God can thus display Himself in His grace, and long-suffering and plenteousness.
~ HORATIUS BONAR
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD 
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