His Heart Scribe Inspirations Devotional Magazine January 2014 January Issue 2014 | Page 30
(Continued from page 22—4 Steps Out)
ter revelations than thy dreams. Say not
that the shades of the prison-house have
f it weren't for life's chisel and ham-
fettered thee; thy fetters are wings — wings
mer there'd be no other way to lib-
of flight into the bosom of humanity. The
erate the happier, more authentic
door of thy prison-house is a door into the
and more enlightened YOU from
heart of the universe."
the marble.
ou
learn
compassion
for
others
eorge Matheson said: "And have not
through the distress God delivers you
you and I a thousand times felt this
from. God has enlarged you by the very
to be true? It is written of Joseph in the
thing you sought to get out of. Sometimes
dungeon that “the iron entered into his
delivered through….sometimes delivered
soul.” We all feel that what Joseph needed
from … ALWAYS DELIVERED!
for his soul was just the iron. He had seen
only the glitter of the gold. He had been
rejoicing in youthful dreams; and dreaming hardens the heart. He who sheds tears
over a romance will not be most apt to
help reality; real sorrow will be too unpoetical for him. We need the iron to enlarge
our nature. The gold is but a vision; the
iron is an experience. The chain which
unites me to humanity must be an iron
chain. That touch of nature which makes
He reproduces Himself through you.
the world akin is not joy, but sorrow; gold
Pass it on!
is partial, but iron is universal."
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oseph’s dungeon is the road to
Joseph’s throne. Thou canst not
lift the iron load of thy brother if
the iron hath not entered into
thee. It is thy limit that is thine enlargement. It is the shadows of thy life that are
the real fulfillment of thy dreams of glory.
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