Word of God clearly says in Luke 22:42 - “Father, if you
are willing, remove this cup from me; yet, not my will but yours be done.”
There are 2 types of
suffering which will come into our life first one is suffering for our sins,
second one suffering for Jesus.
Suffering for
our sins.
Sin is very easy to commit
and result of every sin the consequences follow. As a result of consequences we
will be caught up with problems or sickness or bad debts or family problems or
sudden death of our loved ones, poverty, strained relationships, failures and
so on. When we are going through sufferings for our sins we have to accept it
with joy and bear it in silence so that through that righteousness springs up.
Every person who is on the path of righteousness today had life of sin in the
past. It is because of mercy and Grace of God we were able to give up life of
sin and live a righteous life. Once we have suffered because of our sins we
will be having great hatredness inside of us against sin and also we have
alertness that every sin we commit will make our master sad and we at no cost
want to make our master Jesus sad.
Suffering For
Jesus.
When we grow in righteousness
there will be one more type of suffering that will come in our life which will be
very hard to bear. God will bring so many people who are broken in our life so
that we may speak His word to them and help them to overcome it. When they
overcome it after sometime they will persecute us, spoil our name, gossip about
us badly with others after doing good to them. This type of suffering is very
hard to bear than to bear suffering coming in our because of our sins.
Jesus also did good to so
many people in His ministry on this earth but the same people persecuted Him,
brought false accusation against Him, spit on Him, made Him carry the heavy
cross, crucified Him in the same way people are going to do the same to us also
but for us help of Jesus is always there and through His Grace He will transform
all our enemies into our friends.
When we are called by God to
do His mission, we have be very careful about people and we should not be
attached to anyone or be very close with anyone. If we want to become close
also we have to be calm when they speak wrongly about us and bless them for
cursing and pray for them for persecuting and speak good about them when are
gossiping about us.
All suffering whether it is
coming in our life because of our sins or we are suffering for Jesus is allowed
in our life by God so that through it He will reward us with something we have
not thought in our mind or seen in our life. Let our prayer be when we are suffering
:: Jesus let
this cup of suffering be removed from my life not according to my will but
according to Your will::.
Date:
24: 10: 2020.
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