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"Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress" (Ps. 4:1).
This is one of the grandest testimonies ever given by man to the moral
government of God. It is not a man's thanksgiving that he has been set
free from suffering. It is a thanksgiving that he has been set free
through suffering: "Thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress." He
declares the sorrows of life to have been themselves the source of
life's enlargement.
And have not you and I a thousand times felt this to be true? It is
written of Joseph in the dungeon that "the iron entered into his
soul." We all feel that what Joseph needed for his soul was just the
iron. He had seen only the glitter of the gold. He had been rejoicing
in youthful dreams; and dreaming hardens the heart. He who sheds tears
over a romance will not be most apt to help reality; real sorrow will
be too unpoetic for him. We need the iron to enlarge our nature. The
gold is but a vision; the iron is an experience. The chain which
unites me to humanity must be an iron chain. That touch of nature
which makes the world akin is not joy, but sorrow; gold is partial,
but iron is universal.
My soul, if thou wouldst be enlarged into human sympathy, thou must be
narrowed into limits of human suffering. Joseph's dungeon is the road
to Joseph's throne. Thou canst not lift the iron load of thy brother
if the iron hath not entered into thee. It is thy limit that is thine
enlargement. It is the shadows of thy life that are the real
fulfillment of thy dreams of glory. Murmur not at the shadows; they
are better revelations than thy dreams. Say not that the shades of the
prison-house have fettered thee; thy fetters are wings -- wings of
flight into the bosom of humanity. The door of thy prison-house is a
door into the heart of the universe. God has enlarged thee by the
binding of sorrow's chain. --George Matheson
If Joseph had not been Egypt's prisoner, he had never been Egypt's
governor. The iron chain about his feet ushered in the golden chain
about his neck. --Selected
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