Suffering Reveals God’s Love

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WatsonThomas Watson:

If [God] frowns, or dips his pen in gall, it is done in love. Afflictions, though sharp arrows, are shot from a loving Father. God afflicts in love to humble and purify. He smites that he may save. If he hides his face it is in love.

Thomas Watson, The Lord’s Prayer, 12

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