{"product_id":"2940014874359","title":"The Bow in the Cloud, Or, \u0026#x2028;Covenant Mercy for the Afflicted","description":"The Bow in the Cloud, Or,\u2028Covenant Mercy for the Afflicted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe live in a world of sin — and hence in a world of sorrow, for \"man is born to sorrow, as the sparks fly upward.\"\u003cbr\u003eThe apostle Paul tells us that \"We must go through much tribulation to enter the kingdom of God.\" The apostle John shows us, in one of the visions of the Revelations, that those who \"were arrayed in white robes,\" who were led by the Lamb \"into living fountains of water,\" and from whose eyes \"God shall wipe away all tears\" — \"are those who have come out great tribulation, and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.\"\u003cbr\u003eThus it is true that \"The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.\" That being so, it befits us to learn how to transmute tribulations into blessings; how to turn God's chastening rod into a supporting staff; how to discern the rainbow in the cloud, while we are still wet with raindrops of sorrow!\u003cbr\u003eIt is the design of this volume to aid in doing this comforting work. It seeks to ameliorate sorrow — not by a kind of moral anesthetic, deadening the sensibility of grief, and making the heart less susceptible to woe — but rather by showing to the afflicted that chastenings are the sure evidenced of God's fatherly love.\u003cbr\u003eAfflictions are the means whereby, when right used, \"we become partakers of the divine nature.\" The furnace of affliction is but the purifying agent to purge away our dross — that the great Refiner may see His own image reflected in purified souls.\u003cbr\u003eIn adding another to the many works designed to furnish consolation to the afflicted, the Editor feels that he is but meeting the ever-pressing needs of the human race, and the ever-earnest demands for comfort by those who are visited by bereavement and sorrow. The present work, without interfering with or displacing any of the valuable treatises which have lately been published, has yet a distinct character of its own, in the originality of its design, in the arrangement of its several parts, and in gathering together, from choice and diverse writers, English and American — the strongest and most scriptural consolation which can be offered to the sorrowful and stricken-hearted.\u003cbr\u003eBelieving, as the Editor does, \u2028that all our springs of comfort are in Jesus Christ,\u2028that they are applied to the soul by the Holy Spirit, \u2028that they are to be sought for by the prayer of faith, and \u2028that they result from the overflowing grace of our Heavenly Father\u2028 — he has aimed to keep these points prominently before the reader, being unwilling to lead him to any of the \"broken cisterns\" of earth for consolation, when the well-spring of Divine comfort, which can alone staunch his bleeding heart, is pouring forth its free and life-giving waters!","brand":"Bacon Stevens Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147770380528,"sku":"2940014874359","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014874359_p0.jpg?v=1763616579","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014874359","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}