SUFFERING: DYING TO LIVE
I PETER 3:18-22
‘WE CAN IGNORE EVEN PLEASURE. BUT PAIN INSISTS UPON BEING ATTENDED TO. GOD WHISPERS IN OUR PLEASURE, SPEAKS IN OUR CONSCIENCE, BUT SHOUTS IN OUR PAINS: IT IS HIS MEGAPHONE TO ROUSE A DEAF WORLD.’
C.S. LEWIS, PROBLEM OF PAIN
JESUS DIED (SUFFERED) FOR SINS … VS.18
SUFFERING IS ESSENTIAL TO THE CHRISTIAN LIFE,
“SUFFERING, MERELY ACCEPTED, DOES NOTHING FOR OUR SOULS EXCEPT, PERHAPS, TO HARDEN THEM.”
THOMAS MERTON, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND MISUNDERSTOOD, SUFFERING HARDENS UNDERSTOOD, SUFFERING HEALS."
“WHEN A MAN SUFFERS, HE IS MOST ALONE. THEREFORE, IT IS
IN SUFFERING THAT WE ARE MOST TESTED AS PERSONS.”
THOMAS MERTON, NO MAN IS AN ISLAND
SUPPORTING TEXT:
I PETER 4:12
JAMES 1:2-4
ROMANS 5:2-5
MARK 8:27-37