Redemption

"Have you ever though that of what joy it is to me to be a saviour? 

To be able to take something which has been marred and spoiled and ruined by evil and produce out of it something lovely and good and enduring - something which can never again be spoiled? No cost can possibly be too great in order to accomplish such a triumph as that. Whatever the price, love will pay it exultantly and with joy unspeakable and full of glory." 

'And then the King said: "you know, Grace and Glory, it is enough for the disciple to be as His Lord, and to learn also to overcome evil with good. There is absolutely no experience, however terrible, or heartbreaking, or unjust, or cruel, or evil, which you can meet in the course of your earthly life that can harm you if you will but let me teach you how to accept it with joy; and to react to it triumphantly as u did myself, with love as forgiveness and with willingness to bear the results of wrong done by others. 

Every trial, every test, every difficulty and seemingly wrong experience through which you may have to pass, is only another opportunity granted to you of course querying an evil thing and bringing out of it something to the lasting praise and glory of God. 

You sons and daughters of Adam, in all your suffering and sorrow, are the most privelaged of all beings, for you are to be perfected through suffering and to become the sons and daughters of God with his power to overcome evil with good. If only you realised your destiny, how you would rejoice at every experience of trial and tribulation, and even in the persecution which comes your way. You would count it all joy. You would take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions and distress for Christ's sake, for when you are weak then you will learn how to be made strong." 

Loving "mountains of spices" by Hannah Hurnard