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Sunday, November 24, 2013

An End To Suffering

Few people go through life untouched by suffering of one sort or another. How many ways can we suffer -- broken hearts, unhappy marriages, painful illnesses, divorces, depression or loneliness?
God has built a bridge to us through the suffering of His Son. He walks arm in arm with us over the chasm, entering into our own suffering. 
Actually, suffering is one of the ways we become more Christ-like. The life of Christ is experienced in "the fellowship of His sufferings".
Philippians 3:10 That I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable  unto his death.
God is there when we suffer. He has been there all the time. He is the God of all comfort.
Corinthians 1:3-4 Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort: Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God.
There will be an end to suffering for those who know and love Jesus Christ.