Another Old Lutheran Quote for the Day

Here [Col. 1:11] the apostle gives us the second result of a living knowledge of God in Christ: the might and patience for the glorious perseverance in the cross. The person who has not yet learned to know God as his Father in Christ will find it impossible to joyfully endure many, great, and lengthy sufferings and afflictions. But how completely different it is with those who vividly recognize that God is their dear Father and they are His dear children! People with this knowledge have a firm staff that will not let them fall. They have an unconquerable faith that God intends good for them and that their afflictions are fatherly disciplines rather than punishments, disciplines that lead to salvation, heaven, blessedness, and glory. - C. F. W. Walther, *God Grant It!* p. 881