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The "Why" of Suffering

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. - 1 Peter 1:6

Also Read James 1:2;Romans 2:7; 5:3-5; 8:24-25; 2 Corinthians 6:3-7;2 Peter 1:2-9

The person who suffers will grow stronger if he is attentive to what the Lord is saying. I can personally testify that I could easily have done without many joyful experiences. But I couldn't have done without even one of the spiritual lessons I learned from sorrow. "God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain!" The Lord must sometimes force us by means of distresses to pay attention to His voice. While such times of testing aren't pleasant, we must wait patiently for Him to accomplish His purposes. If we refuse to become bitter, we will learn the priceless lessons of grace that adversity can bring.

One autumn day when I went to a chrysanthemum show, I asked of a gardener "How do you manage to produce such marvelous flowers?" "Well sir, we concentrate all the strength of the plant in one bloom. If we would allow it to bear all the flowers it could, none would be worth showing. If you want a prize specimen, you must be content with a single chrysanthemum instead of many." So too, God prunes from our lives certain habits and practices, which in themselves may not be wrong, so that He may perfect in us the one exquisite white blossom of holiness.

Dear friends, so those of us who accept trouble graciously grow rich by their losses, rise by their falls and find new life in Christ by dying to self. This is one blessed answer to the "why" of suffering!

Can we think it pleases His loving heart?
To cause us a moment's pain?
Oh, no! But He sees, through the present cross,
The bliss of eternal gain!






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