Christianity doesn’t give us a free pass out of suffering. You will suffer. I guarantee it. It’s right and proper to acknowledge you’re hurting, and hurting bad. Just because you’re a Christian doesn’t mean your suffering will be any easier or more endurable What it does mean is that you can see your suffering as one point in a timeline that stretches out into eternity. For Christians, that means that the best is still ahead of us.
3 reasons why you’re suffering and what to do about it.
Maybe you aren’t suffering. Perhaps you have in the past. If not, you will in the future. Suffering is part of the human condition. There’s no escaping it. It won’t go away. And, believer, you aren’t exempt from it. If anything, suffering is more common to Christians than not. That is typically not a part […]
When God chooses to crush you.
Is it possible that God might choose to crush you? He might do that in His mercy.
If you’re suffering now, you don’t have to pretend it’s all good.
If you’re suffering now, you don’t have to pretend it’s all good.
I’m not sure what constitutes suffering. It’s an emotionally-charged word, but I think it can be too easily applied.
Your DVR not working is not suffering. Running out of mayonnaise and having to go to the store isn’t suffering.
Starving to death is suffering. Stage 4 cancer is suffering.
And a totally trashed relationship with no reconciliation on the horizon might be suffering.
The uneasy truth is that we all suffer. Every one of us. All of us. You aren’t exempt.