Tuesday 7 December 2010

SUFFERING

'On February 6, 1870, George Muller's wife, Mary, died of rheumatic fever. They had been married thrity-nine years and four months. He was sixty-four years old. Shortly after the funeral he was strong enough to preach a "funeral sermon" as he called it. What text would he choose when God had taken his best beloved? He chose Psalm 119:68, "You are good, and do good." His three points were:
  1. The Lord was good, and did good, in giving her to me.
  2. The Lord was good, and did good, in so long leaving her to me.
  3. The Lord was good, and did good, in taking her from me.'
John Piper, The Pleasures of God, p.183.