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Perfect justice means I couldn’t suffer punishment for someone else’s sins because anything I suffered Neither does anyone. He’s God. And he has the power to make you like God. Does that make him more worthy of forgiveness than someone who has violated a thousand people? When you simply cannot forgive Given the immense suffering inflicted on you, it is hardly surprising

A woman e-mailed me complaining that the above paragraph does not apply to people like her. She does not glory in her past like some mistakenly seem to, but she ruthlessly exposes her failure in to so focus on this possibility as to not believe unless he does it, is the height of impertinence. a fortune to own, does your heart skip a beat at the lengths your Father in heaven goes to say ‘I love the love of God   How Much Does God Love Me?

incident just after describing all the floggings, stonings, shipwrecks, deprivations and so on that he had suffered If nothing – not even suffering or calamity or persecution or famine or inadequate clothing or peril Those simple words, “My grace is sufficient for you,” released the revelation that suffering adversity The assurance that being in deep water does not mean failure and that no matter what self-appointed critics As surely as everyone on this planet suffers temptation (satanic attempts to deceive), false feelings

When Suffering Hardness of Heart, Severe Condemnation, Doubt or Vile Thoughts What Must a Christian do Doing nothing does not mean wanting nothing. It is not, of course, losing all desire to please God. He suffered all this so that when you simply look to him in faith, the astonishing exchange is complete My wife, who has suffered greatly from anxiety, has found using the Lord’s prayer this way astonishingly When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

Worrying that God has not forgiven them and suffering unstoppable blasphemous thoughts might seem distinctly Victor – the name I’ve chosen for the typical sufferer – is in agony. Just as pain killers would not be the real answer to appendicitis, so assurance that Victor is divinely anxiety disorder to have no idea they are suffering from one. suffering a broken leg means one is spiritually lacking.

Yet our only Innocent gladly suffered the injustice to free the guilty from suffering eternal justice to end your suffering. The suffering of humanity’s only Innocent (Jesus) blazed the way for the total removal of all suffering Soon all suffering will cease. When You Suffered Unspeakable Horrors?

It does not mention smiling. our tongue as the realization hits that those words were penned from prison by the man who regularly suffered Like a mother who does everything for her darling child and is usually taken for granted, so is God. The ideal activity for a date with God is one that is not mentally demanding but allows your mind to Ruth’s inner pain prevented her from feeling (or even truly believing) the genuineness of God’s personal

From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many In contrast, Peter’s words, motivated by a loving yearning to protect his Lord from suffering, became Philippians 3:10  I want to know Christ . . . and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. 1 Peter 4:1  Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because he who has suffered in his body is

in the eyes of the law, neither does it make you innocent in the eyes of God. If past or present suffering haunts you, you’ll need the later verses. The end of  Romans 8  says that nothing – not even suffering or calamity or persecution – can separate Romans 8:18   ‘I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will In  2 Corinthians 4:17 , Paul, who was frequently tortured, says my sufferings are light and momentary

Sadly, this is disconcertingly close to what most modern Christians, even those with high morals, suffer The Bible does not say seek God in order to find happiness and contentment. It says seek God. It does not say God is your ticket to getting what you really need, it says God himself is what you really But you be sober in all things, suffer hardship, do the work of an evangelist, and fulfil your ministry Does that make us like drunks who don’t want a hangover but want to keep drinking?

Breakthrough We gain God’s heart as a branch slowly gains fruit – by remaining spiritually connected to Christ, the vine and by allowing God to “prune” us. We gain God’s heart by maintaining intimate oneness with Christ and letting God’s Word “remain” in us Matthew 19:8   He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, allowed you to divorce Again, “heart” does not appear in the following, although it might be implied: Matthew 25:24  He also

Others feel guilty simply because they suffer horrific temptation or evil thoughts that originate not prevent, forces upon them the terrifying conclusion that a tragedy as bad, or even worse, as what they suffered Christ suffered so that our failures could be wiped out in a flash. that Jesus achieved this by suffering the full penalty our sins deserve. answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered