Believer, whoever told you that in life we would not have trials, tribulations, circumstances and sufferings- lied to you. Scriptures are VERY clear that we WILL have those- especially those of us that are in the household of faith.
At times in our life- we will suffer. No one escapes suffering. God wants us to find our all-in-all in Him. Joy, strength, power, peace, comfort, life. Only through experiencing afflictions, tribulations, sufferings do we go to Jesus and find all our deepest needs met. Find that He perfects (completes, finishes) through suffering- suffering strips us of self (flesh) and brings us to reality and truth. Suffering, in it's truth and completion forms us into the image of Christ. IF we allow God to bring suffering to completion. Some choose to wallow in the suffering- and not allow God to perfect the suffering in them.
Yes, some suffering we bring about on our self and some suffering happens to us. But don't allow suffering to define you and become your identity. Because it's a false identity and you'll be living in a lie. Which will bring about more suffering by living in a lie.
2 Corinthians 1:3-7
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ. 6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer; 7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
Philippians 3:10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death;
Philippians 4:11-13
11 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
11 Not that I speak from want, for I have learned to be content in whatever circumstances I am. 12 I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need. 13 I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.
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