Dr. Jim Denison, in his always insightful God Issues blog, quoted today from Peter Marshall, the Scottish-American Presbyterian pastor who became chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Marshall, a gifted orator and compelling figure, died at age 46 of a heartattack.Marshall was immortalized in a biography by his wife, Catherine, A Man Called Peter, which was later made into an Oscar®-nominated movie. Both book and movie are still in print/digital.
Here is what Dr. Marshall said:
“It is a fact of Christian experience that life is a series of troughs and peaks. In his efforts to get permanent possession of a soul, God relies on the troughs more than the peaks. And some of his special favorites have gone through longer and deeper troughs than anyone else.”
Lots of truth in that. Just ask Joseph, the Patriarch, and countless others.