Daily Devotion

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

C.S. Lewis · The Problem of Pain

Scripture

2 Timothy 2:21 If anyone cleanses himself from what is ignoble, he will be a vessel for honorable use, set apart as holy, useful to the Master of the house, and prepared for every good work.

Reflection

In *The Problem of Pain*, C. S. Lewis writes that God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our consciences, but shouts to us in our pains—pain being His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. My wife has recently been going through a crisis; these are difficult days, yet her spiritual life is growing. Her suffering has not been in vain; God is molding her. Like clay in the hands of a potter, she is being broken so that she may be reshaped—for to become a vessel fit for use, one must always pass through the fire and the potter’s hands. I pray that as the Lord breaks her, He will also sustain and lift her up.