Is this, for the time being, a source of pleasure?

Answer

"Now no chastening for the present seems to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yields the
peaceable, fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby." Verse 11.
NOTE -- 'Many of the sweetest joys of Christian hearts are songs which have been learned in the
bitterness of trial." "Many a cold, icy nature is made warm and tender by the grief that crushes it.'! -"Week-Day Religion," by J. R. Miller, D.D., pages 91,93.

What did Jesus say of the one who loves Him?
What does God desire to teach the children?
What would obedience to God's commandments have ensured to ancient Israel?
What, more than all else, proves the perpetuity and immutability of the law of God?
Why was woe at this same time proclaimed to the world?
When the church had received help from the state to this extent, what more did she demand?
What does He indicate as one of its purposes?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle