Unsuspected Joys
Hebrews 10:32-34
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions;…


It is with wealth as with a water reservoir. When the drought has dried it up, you find in the deserted bed things that were lost years ago, and curious interesting things which but for this circumstance would never have been known. So, where it is a believing contented mind, it will discover, when the flood of fortune has drained away, in the deserted channel unsuspected sources of enjoyment and lost things, feelings which long since vanished, simple pleasures and primitive emotions which abundance had overflowed.



Parallel Verses
KJV: But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;

WEB: But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings;




The Recollection of Past Sufferings an Encouragement to Present Steadfastness
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