Affliction, Revealing Christ’s Heart – Charles Spurgeon

“IT is good for me that I have been afflicted,” many can say, not only because of the restoring effect of sorrow, but because their afflictions have acted like windows, to let them gaze into the very heart of Christ, and read his pity and understand his nature, as they never could have done by other means. Furnace light is memorably clear. Jesus is a brother born for adversity, because in the glimmer of the world’s eventide, when all the lamps are going out, a glory shines around him, transforming midnight into day.