Dear Friends,
Winter time and times of trouble have much in common, as today’s devotional reveals, show us how to view both. God bless you.

Because of Calvary,
John Janney

• James 1:2-4 (ESV)

  2 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, 3 for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. 4 And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

• Romans 8:28 (ESV)

  28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

“We cannot afford to lose one of our sorrows or trials. There would be no summer unless winter had gone before. There is a bud or a fruit for every snowflake, and a bird’s song for every howl of the storm.” [Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture I, (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, n.d.), p. 257]