Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it! Thomas Boston (1676-1732), Scottish Theologian Comment: Without my death bed experience i would never had come to Christ! I was simply too stubborn and rebellious to do it on my own! At the end of myself I found Christ waiting for me! God would not remove the thorn in the side of the Apostle Paul even though he prayed three times to remove it! The thorn kept Paul humbled so God could use him to build his Kingdom here on earth! James Sasse.