Rejoicing in Our Sufferings? Part 2 (TMF:2584)
Thursday, April 03, 2025
Peace to Live By: Rejoicing in Our Sufferings? Part 2 (TMF:2584) - Daniel Litton
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We taught and geared to avoid suffering at all costs. Just a breeze through the local bookstore will demonstrate that fact, or a scrolling through your favorite online bookstore on your smartphone. All kinds of books, whether secular or otherwise, have been written to help us in and steer us from suffering. Suffering is bad. No one wants to suffer. And yet, Paul tell us today that he rejoiced in his sufferings. He doesn’t say he wanted to suffer, or even sought it, but he says his reaction to it was that of rejoicing. Seems somewhat perverted based, again, our our preconditioned mindsets. So, what do we do with this? How do we understand it? Well, not all of us have perfect lives. There are those who suffer. Probably not the same way Paul did through external persecution, but there are other kinds of suffering. There is disease, hospitalizations, broken relationships, divorce, mental issues, lack of money, etc.