It
is the Word that prunes the Christian, it is the truth that purges him, the
Scripture made living and powerful by the Holy Spirit-effectually cleanses the
Christian. Affliction is the handle of the knife - affliction is the grindstone
that sharpens the Word - affliction is the dresser that removes our soft
garments and lays bear the diseased flesh, so that the surgeon's knife may get
at it - affliction merely makes us ready to feel the Word - but the true prune
is the Word, in the hand of the Great Vinedresser.
Charles
Spurgeon
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