Something to Think About

I just finished Gerald N. Lund's book Divine Signatures. He has a quote in there I loved and need to remember frequently:

The thermostat on the furnace of affliction will not have been set too high for us--though clearly we may think so at the time. Our God is a refining God who has been tempering soul-steel for a very long time. He knows when the right edge has been put upon our excellence and also when there is more in us than we have yet given.
Neal A. Maxwell

Now if only I could keep that in mind when the fire gets turned up hotter than ever before because I generally think the edges have been completed long before He does.