The Better Suffering
1 Peter 3:17-18 KJV
[17] For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.
[18] For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
Are you suffering, in pains or in distress? If yes, then is it a good or bad suffering? Not all suffering are good ones. Suffering for ones wrong doing is a norm but suffering for others wrong doing is unconventional and ill.
Jesus suffered for doing good and this is expected of us. It is a righteous thing to suffer for good. So brethren, it is not enough to say you're suffering but for what reason are you suffering?
Beloved, your faith in God has enlisted your name for suffering based on your good, John 15:18-19; 17:14, 2 Corin 1:2-11; 12:10, 2 Timothy 3:11-12.
May God help us to maintain our faith, love and zeal for Him during our period of suffering for good doing.
Shalom!
"Rend your heart, and not your garments." --Joel 2:13 Apart from vital godliness all religion is utterly vain; offered without a sincere heart, every form of worship is a solemn sham and an impudent mockery of the majesty of heaven. HEART-RENDING is divinely wrought and solemnly felt. It is a secret grief which is personally experienced, not in mere form, but as a deep, soul-moving work of the Holy Spirit upon the inmost heart of each believer. It is not a matter to be merely talked of and believed in, but keenly and sensitively felt in every living child of the living God. It is powerfully humiliating, and completely sin-purging; but then it is sweetly preparative for those gracious consolations which proud un-humbled spirits are unable to receive; and it is distinctly discriminating, for it belongs to the elect of God, and to them alone.
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