"If
that is the case, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning
fiery furnace, and He will deliver us from your hand, O king" Daniel 3:17
How does the Church reach her
goal? Only by traveling the pathway from
pressure to enlargement, from poverty to enrichment. You ask: What do we mean by enlargement
through pressure? When three are shut
into a furnace and the three become four that is enlargement through
pressure. Some find a furnace rather
close quarters for three, so they seek a way of escape; others accept the
limitation, and in accepting it, make room for a Fourth. Not to let difficulties shut us out from God,
but to let them shut us in to him, that is enlargement through pressure. Some, through pressure, reach God's end; others
come to an end in the pressure. Some die
in straitness; others, through straitness, find fullness of life. Some murmur when trials befall, finding in
them only restraint, limitation and death; others praise God for the trials,
and in doing so discover the pathway to enlargement, liberation, and abundance
of life.
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