I Shall Come Forth As Gold
The Come, Follow Me manual for this week says this: “At the heart of this debate was a question many people have asked: Why do righteous people sometimes suffer? Although we don’t have all the answers, in the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, we have some truths that can help us make sense of adversity and suffering.” The same section highlights these words of Job that he said to his friends as he was suffering from all the afflictions that came suddenly upon him: “On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him: But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold” (Job 23:9-10). We certainly do not understand all of the reasons that adversity and suffering come to even the righteous, but these words of Job highlight one thing that we do know: our sufferings can refine and purify and strengthen and improve us. Other scriptures teach a similar principle. For example, when the righ...