Good day Templar familie. Have a blessed day🇿🇦⚔️
Chances are, you or someone you love is passing through suffering right now. It may be chronic pain, illness, or disability. It may be grief from some traumatic loss. It may be a fragmenting relationship. It may be the pain of struggling through seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Do you sometimes just want to look up and scream, “Why, God? Why?”
It’s hard to understand suffering. Why does God allow even His faithful followers to go through to... moreGood day Templar familie. Have a blessed day🇿🇦⚔️
Chances are, you or someone you love is passing through suffering right now. It may be chronic pain, illness, or disability. It may be grief from some traumatic loss. It may be a fragmenting relationship. It may be the pain of struggling through seemingly insurmountable challenges.
Do you sometimes just want to look up and scream, “Why, God? Why?”
It’s hard to understand suffering. Why does God allow even His faithful followers to go through tough times? How does God use our fiery trials for our good and His glory? How does suffering bless us? Can we actually have joy when enduring pain and hardship? How can we focus on the goodness of our sovereign God?
Suffering isn’t any fun, so how can we have joy? Is that even possible?
We can rejoice in suffering by realizing that God uses it to display His character in us. Developing God’s character is a series of steps that starts with suffering. God uses those painful times like a refiner’s fire to purify and make us more like Jesus. We grow stronger in our faith and deeper in our intimacy with God when passing through trials –if we cooperate with God.
Let’s be honest –none of us willingly choose to suffer. We don’t have to! It finds us easily enough. And yet, joy and blessing accompany suffering, and God is in it with us.
