I have wondered many times 'how can a suffering be a Blessing', have they lost words to comfort the one who is sick and so instead tell them its a Blessing !!!!!! I couldn't accept this at all, it sounded absurd, insanely absurd. If God loves me, then why would he want me to suffer !!!! Had this doubt in my mind and I just gave it to God to answer me. Days passed by. Then I was thinking, may be Christian life is to accept sufferings and tribulations. But then why should Jesus say it is finished in the Cross and tell we are Redeemed !!!!! Oh my, confusing is the Love of God I felt. Felt standing with a fake smile whenever I hear someone say ‘God Loves you and so you’re disciplined. God disciplines those He loves’. But in heart was getting more and more confused each day, until came across this beautiful journal in a book called the “Our Daily Bread” one morning. I decided to share it people around me, so that they could understand God’s purpose in it and what does God’s love got to do with their suffering.
Our Daily Bread:
By, Herb Vander Lugt:
A robust 76-year-old man responded to my comment about his good health by saying, “It’s the greatest of all blessings”. I replied, “Are you sure you really mean that? I know a man who is thankful for illness because that’s how he learned to depend on God’s presence and power”. Smiling, my friend said, “You’re right. Trusting God is far greater blessing than good health. If it takes sickness and pain to think about the glory of God and heaven, I say, praise the Lord for sickness and pain”.
The psalmist wrote, “It is good for me that I have been afflicted” (Ps. 119:71). It is in a time of trouble that many believers discover the tenderness of God and experience His presence. They learn that God is with them. They would rather not go through the difficulty again, but they look back upon it as worth every bit of hurt they endured.
Good health and financial prosperity are great Blessings, and we should be thankful for them. But we need not get discouraged when we encounter illness or adversity. Through them we come to know God better, and we can say with Job, “I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees You”. And that is the greatest of all blessings”.
Would you not agree with them !!!!! When we are blessed even when you could hardly have time for Him, then how much more we shall be blessed when we are looking upon Him day and night !!!! This suffering leads to us to such desperation that we look upon Him, fully dependent upon His grace and mercy, which for sure is very abundant. God Bless !!!!!!
Regards,
Ann Chisel.
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