1 Peter 1:6 KJV
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Gill, "...the character of the saints in this world is, that they are as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, 2Co_6:10 ... the cause of this heaviness is not only indwelling corruptions, the hidings of God's face, and the temptations of Satan, but afflictions and persecutions, which are here meant by "manifold temptations"; for not the temptations or to sin, are here intended, but the temptations with which God tempts and tries his people: so he sometimes does, by calling them to hard service, to do things difficult and disagreeable to flesh and blood..."[1]
Clarke, "...Sometimes there is a kind of necessity that the followers of God should be afflicted; when they have no trials they are apt to get careless, and when they have secular prosperity they are likely to become worldly-minded. “God,” said a good man, “can neither trust me with health nor money; therefore I am both poor and afflicted.” [2]
We may miss out on more of the quality of faith than we really know when we are blessed to live without the mixture of sorrow and rejoicing. I fear too much rejoicing is done in America and too little sorrowing.
Nevertheless in those times of heaviness through manifold temptations it is a source of blessing to know they are "for a season." Cycles of life continue on and those times of heaviness we know do not last long. Just as there is the heaviness now, there will come a time of uplifting soon enough.
[1] E-Sword 7.7.7, John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, Dr. John Gill (1690-1771)
[2] E-Sword 7.7.7, Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.S.A., (1715-1832)
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
Gill, "...the character of the saints in this world is, that they are as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, 2Co_6:10 ... the cause of this heaviness is not only indwelling corruptions, the hidings of God's face, and the temptations of Satan, but afflictions and persecutions, which are here meant by "manifold temptations"; for not the temptations or to sin, are here intended, but the temptations with which God tempts and tries his people: so he sometimes does, by calling them to hard service, to do things difficult and disagreeable to flesh and blood..."[1]
Clarke, "...Sometimes there is a kind of necessity that the followers of God should be afflicted; when they have no trials they are apt to get careless, and when they have secular prosperity they are likely to become worldly-minded. “God,” said a good man, “can neither trust me with health nor money; therefore I am both poor and afflicted.” [2]
We may miss out on more of the quality of faith than we really know when we are blessed to live without the mixture of sorrow and rejoicing. I fear too much rejoicing is done in America and too little sorrowing.
Nevertheless in those times of heaviness through manifold temptations it is a source of blessing to know they are "for a season." Cycles of life continue on and those times of heaviness we know do not last long. Just as there is the heaviness now, there will come a time of uplifting soon enough.
[1] E-Sword 7.7.7, John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible, Dr. John Gill (1690-1771)
[2] E-Sword 7.7.7, Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible, Adam Clarke, LL.D., F.S.A., (1715-1832)
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