The Daily Guide
What of suffering?
Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill and to Your tabernacle.
Psalm 43:3 - NKJV
At the very moment I was looking to the Lord for the day's devotional message I was attacked by a migraine headache. It stopped me functioning mentally. Spiritually though I kept acting. I prayed. I got a scripture from the Holy Spirit, I spoke it aloud. I called my wife for prayer. Now here I am a short while later recovered. Psa.34:19
A few years ago my eyes wondered across a local church's pamphlet table and came to rest on a newsletter. In it I read, "Suffering draws you closer to God." It's a common but not well-formed belief. What is a well-formed belief? We are drawn closer to God by our Christian response to suffering! Suffering is not God's Christian school of development. Rather the testing fields of active Christian life become God's school of development when in the face adversity we respond with our Christian equipping.
How are you to respond to suffering and adversity? In trials of Christian service respond with all your equipping and draw closer to God! Respond to it with all of the all things of God that pertain to life and godliness! This means resorting to God's grace, His light, His counsel and His love. These will draw you closer to God. And what do you do about that affliction? Act spiritually - pray, shout precious promises, get prayer - and so partake of Christ's substitutionary sacrifice made for you at the Cross. May suffering be turned to rejoicing at an experience of divine healing! Isa.53:5, 2Pet.1:2-4.
Enjoy the peace of Jesus Christ!
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