Rejoicing in Heaviness

Whereas ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations. That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ. -- I Pet. 1:6, 7. Ye rejoice, though in heaviness! Such seems, putting it very briefly, the contents of these verses from the first epistle of the apostle Peter. Apparently a very...