Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

Faith told Moses that affliction and suffering were not real evils. They were part of the school of God in which He trains the children of grace for glory. There were the medicines that are needed to purify our corrupt wills, the furnace that must burn away our dross, and the knife that must cut the ties that bind us to the world.