The Wind that Disarranges

It is in times of intense suffering that we begin to see the reason for redemption, and realize that redemption is worth what it cost the original Designer. According to the New Testament, redemption cost God everything, and that is the reason salvation is so easy for us. The same thing happens in an agony as happens when you suddenly open your door and window during a hurricane; the wind disarranges everything. It plays havoc, and knocks things into confusion, but also brings a totally new circulation of air; and very often the man who has been knocked around by an agony begins to form a new mind, and is better able to appreciate the New Testament view of the Cross of Jesus Christ."  ~Oswald Chambers, “The Shadow of an Agony