'Now in safe anchorage', the Wild Wood just left outside was miles away,and all that they had suffered in it, 'a half- forgotten dream'.These are words from the Wind and the Willows, Ratty and Mole had got into difficulties in the Wild Wood ,caught up in a snow storm, they were cold ,wet,and nearing exhaustion. When they by chance stumbled on their friend Mr Badger's home, who brought them into a place of warmth, refreshment and security. Things had now changed and the difficulties and dangers they had faced where like a,'half forgotten dream'.It reminds me of what the Apostle Paul wrote to the church at Rome, a church that would soon experience terrible persecution under the Emperor Nero's rule.Here is what Paul wrote,'I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us'. He also wrote in 2 Corinthians 4 v 17,'For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all'.It needs to be repeated that as Christians we suffer like anybody else,but it does not stop there,in many countries Christians are being persecuted severely.So the words penned by Paul are an encouragement and reminder that the rewards of glory will more than compensate for the suffering of this life, those things we have suffered will be like 'a half- forgotten dream'.
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