You have them because you need them!

(Letters of William Romaine, 1714-1795)

"Here on earth you will have many trials and sorrows." John 16:33

My dear sister,
It is but a little way and a short time, and we shall be at our eternal home! We ought every moment to be pressing forward.

You will have afflictions and troubles along the way, and so have all God's children. You have them because you need them! You could not grow in grace without them. How could you take up your cross and deny yourself daily-if you did not have daily troubles?

It is the exercise of faith to bear them, and to believe that God deals them out by number, weight, and measure. You have not one pain more than you stand in need of!

And further, "Our light affliction, which is but for a moment, works for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory." If we do but attain to this glory, it signifies very little by what way we come to the attainment of it.

Think on these things, and through the blessing of God, they may help to make you see and feel that the way of suffering is the royal way to the kingdom.

We shall soon meet in our Father's Kingdom, and inherit all that Jesus purchased for us!

I commend you to God and to the riches of His grace, praying Him to do for you exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask or think.

"Your brother and companion in the suffering and kingdom and patient endurance that are ours in Jesus" Revelation 1:9

I remain, your loving brother,
William Romaine

"Every trial comes from the hand of God! That is our comfort.
 When we are obedient, He sends trials to purify us.
 When we are disobedient, He sends trials to chasten us."