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

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.

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

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

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?

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?

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

Contrary to what I had always thought, the fear and condemnation I suffered were not from God. telling his Son Jesus that he had not suffered enough to forgive my sins? me suffer all the time. Jesus does the rest.   How to Cope When Riddled with Guilt  and  How Much does God Love Me?

In plain English: Your supernatural Creator can satisfy in a way that nothing else has a chance of achieving We cannot serve both God and money (Luke 16:13) or God and pleasure or God popularity and or God and God is not someone to be tacked on to a full life. He does not allow us that option. life-controlling craving he must initially resolve to endure far more craving than he would otherwise suffer To reign with Christ, we must be willing to suffer with Christ.

many with anxiety feel misunderstood or even looked down on by those so fortunate as to never having suffered Men can feel unduly shamed by it – as if it were somehow unmasculine to suffer certain afflictions. Christians can feel like failures, or even get mad at God, for suffering from it – as if having God as If you suffer from guilt or OCD, there’s a special version of this webpage that I suggest you now go What fear does is up to fear, but what you do is up to you.

what he does not want to give us. A missionary’s monthly allowance failed to reach her. You would be so passionate about God that pleasing him means more to you than life or pain-avoidance Doesn’t our long-suffering Lord have enough trouble getting us to read much of the Bible as it is? And, of course, that is what God does, as shown throughout both Testaments.

I truly believe Jesus allows it to be this long so that we can build a strong foundation and deep stability I am starting to see that it is our responsibility, as the Christian front part, to love as Jesus does I know that must be very painful, as no one likes to be rejected. I am learning that Jesus really does genuinely accept witches for who they are. So what does it mean to be like God?