| The Beauty of Self Control |
Chapter 7 |
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A young Christian woman relates an experience which greatly saddened her. She had a girl friend that she had long loved deeply. The two were inseparable. They trusted each other implicitly. One who tells the story says she had regarded her friend as like an angel in the truth and beauty of her life. She never had had a shadow of doubt concerning her character and conduct. Then she learned that this girl had been living a double life for years. The discovery appalled her. At first she refused to believe it, but the evidence was so clear, so unmistakable, that she could not but believe it, and it almost killed her. It was painful to hear her words and see her distress. Then she wrote: “I understand now a little of the bitter sorrow of my Saviour in Gethsemane, as he drank the cup of his people’s sins.”
If a human friend can be thus brokenhearted over the sin of a friend, how the Holy Spirit must suffer in his cherishing of us, in his watching for our sanctification, in his wondrous brooding over us – how he must grieve when we fall into sin!
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