"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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