SUFFERING - WHAT IT DOES

“Suffering is good for us”. Those are the words we find. I also know we sometimes need a kick on the behind. For people often lay about, preferring not to move. How else can Jesus motivate to get us out the groove? We didn’t pay attention and ignored His just decrees. He wanted our attention to see the way He sees. And suffering is perfect; for nobody likes pain. And that is why He uses it; to start us up again. He learned this from His Father and He was qualified; Because of all the suffering, He knew before He died; He had to be perfected, to be our Great High Priest. He went through awful agony, before He was deceased. That’s how He was qualified. His body was a wreck. A High Priest known just once before; The King Melchizedek. It seems that there’s a pattern that we all need to know. The “higher” you’re “promoted” the more the pain will grow. That seems to be the principle of how we’re glorified. The more you’re elevated the more you will be tried. To be a Christian leader, we need to understand, The suff’ring will be greater, than what our thoughts had planned. But we are not alone in this; creation also groans. Waiting for the sons of God, to all be truly known. It started of with Adam. So when he sinned and fell. The whole of God’s creation went down with Him as well. There’s only one solution. To humbly submit; And always be obedient and consequently fit, In with the way the Master has laid in front of you. There isn’t an alternative for what you have to do. And if you are uncertain, think back in history. The things that you have suffered and how it used to be. He humbled you with hunger; and then He gave you bread. The manna fell from heaven and that’s how you were fed. For forty years of wandering, in that dry wilderness, Your clothes and shoes did not wear out. He came to you to bless, You so your feet were blister-free and not once did they swell. Although you were all wand’ring in a desert “hot as hell”. The Lord observed your suffering and treated you like sons. He put you through His discipline that no one thought was fun. But when you entered Canaan, it all came to an end. The trial was then over and it was time to send, You in to take possession of the land He said He’d give. To drive out all the occupants; so none of them would live. So when you go through suffering rejoice; you are His child. And He has one intention. A people undefiled. Jim Strickland – Written 5th December 2011