“When you are joyful, be joyful; when you are sad, be sad. If God has given you a sweet cup, don’t make it bitter; and if He has given you a bitter cup, don’t try and make it sweet; take things as they come. One of the last lessons we learn is not to be an amateur providence—“I shall not allow that person to suffer.” Suffering, and the inevitable result of suffering, is the only way some of us can learn, and if we are shielded God will ultimately take the one who interferes by the scruff of the neck and remove him. The fingers that caress a child may also hurt its flesh; it is the power of love that makes them hurt.”
“Over The Top, Ecclesiastes 7:13-22,” Oswald Chambers, in The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers (Discovery House, 2000), p. 1226
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