Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 109.
We should neither court suffering nor complain about it. Instead, we should see it as one of the means God chooses to employ in order to make us increasingly useful to the Master. It is from this perspective that James urges his readers to “consider it pure joy…whenever you face trials of many kinds” (James 1:2).
Alistair Begg, Made For His Pleasure, Moody Press, 1996, p. 109.