Pleasure and Pain

Ellen says: It is impossible to pass through life without experiencing times when you cannot see your way through a deep valley. Times when the package delivered at the back door in the ugly wrapping of affliction or illness." Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain."

You may find yourself enjoying the intermission. Today, you may be smiling. Your heart may be light and merry. Perhaps answers to prayer have come beautifully and deliberately. You are swept away in delight. But it's also quite possible that you are caught in the grip of affliction. You may be going through some of the hardest days of your life. You may be wondering Why ?Why me? Why this trials?

When you persevere through trials, God gives you a special measure of insight. You become the recipient of the favor of God as He gives to you something that would not be learned otherwise.