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FaithGateway Personal Armageddons Suffering Is Universal We don’t deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact; no one can escape its claws. The rain falls upon the just and the unjust. We all face personal armageddons. Some people have the mistaken idea that becoming a Christian will be a shelter from the personal storms of life. The story of many of our hymns will swiftly dispel this myth. A large number of our favorite hymns and spiritual songs were composed in the crucible of life. Many illustrations could be given. Charlotte Elliott, when she was a helpless invalid, wrote “Just As I Am.” Frances Ridley Havergal, author of “Take My Life” and many other hymns, suffered much ill health. Fanny Crosby was blind, yet out of her suffering came such lovely songs as “Safe in the Arms of Jesus.” The hymn “God Moves in a Mysterious Way” was composed by the poet William Cowper i ....