To Suffer To LOVE 3

A question that is asked quiet often-

God is love, why would He allow anyone to suffer?

It is not in God’s nature to cause people to suffer.

God allows suffering to draw us closer to Himself. 

In this life we get to glorify God through our suffering. 

In Heaven, there will be no more tears, pain, or sorrow.

Suffering is a result of the fall. The Bible tells us that the wage of sin is death.

No one is good because we all have sinned. When sin entered the world, pain and suffering were introduced as a consequence of sin.

When things run smooth, we do not always go to God except on Sundays, for a celebration of the mass, maybe. 

Suffering creates in us a dependency on God. The Lord can use our suffering to cause us to run to Him for help.

How you chose to go through suffering can either draw you closer to God or push you miles away from Him. I believe, no matter how far you run, God is closer still. He never gives up on us. 

I hope for you to know that suffering draws you so much closer to God, that words cannot totally do justice to such a thing as this. 

Romans 5:3-5 says: - More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us. 

God is faithful, and He will not abandon us. 

God does not delight in our suffering.

We have to embrace our suffering for the sake of Christ.

Suffering will grow our character and faith when we choose to put our trust in Jesus.

Though we may not understand why we are going through suffering, we must trust that God is good and that we can never be separated from His love.

Trust God that when we cry out to Him, He will always hear our prayers.

God brings us through difficult seasons of suffering so that our faith can be strengthened.

Happiness is to know the Saviour,

Living a life within His favour,

Having a change in my behaviour,

Happiness is the Lord.

Happiness is a new creation,

Jesus and me in close relation,

Having a part in His salvation,

Happiness is the Lord.

Real joy is mine,

No matter if the teardrops start,

I've found a secret,

It's Jesus in my heart.

To develop closeness with God, we first need to be able to see the truth about ourselves.

We pray to God to change our circumstances, but we need to be able to face the fact that He wants to change us, regardless of the circumstances.

The Holy Spirit will reveal to us things we don’t admit about ourselves. But remember, the truth will set us free!

John 8:32 ‘and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

THE REDEMPTION

Christ our Lord was nailed to a cross. Having been mocked and tortured in various ways, He was crucified.

Jesus Christ offered Himself in obedience to the Father as a sacrifice for the redemption of all mankind.

• Jesus is God, by His sacrificial death on the Cross, we have the Promise of Eternal Life. The sacrifice of Jesus's life for all of us-in obedience to the Father restored us to God's friendship, which had been lost by sin. Romans 5:10 For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, now that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.

• Adam and Eve disobeyed God's direct command to them.
  Jesus’ obedience to His Father included His own death: And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even death on a cross. Philippians 2:8

• Ephesians 2:13 But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ.
  God made us a part of His family through faith in Jesus Christ. He has showered us with blessings and promised us an eternal inheritance, based on the worthiness of Christ Himself.
  Romans 8:17 and if children, then heirs, heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
  In this verse, we share in the sufferings of Christ now and will share in the glory of Christ later as His “co-heirs” or “joint-heirs.”

  
  

Sacrifice

Hebrews 10:12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,

Not often will you hear the word sacrifice. It is the sacrifice of God the Father; it is the sacrifice of Jesus. Jesus lived His life to 33 years as one of us. He humbled Himself, He offered Himself as a sacrifice for sin. He was killed brutally for He loved infinitely. 

In the Sacrifice of His life, we are redeemed. And it is this, we joyfully look to after this life on Earth is done. 

God has a purpose and plan for our lives that is better than anything we can ever imagine. There is no limit to how good our lives can become when we open our hearts and mind to the power of His love.

With all my love,

For LOVE PREVAILS!

AnitA.

PRAYER: Abba, Father, keep me obedient and always faithful. Remember, this your servant.

Mama Mary keep me humble, I pray. Amen.

Prayer for the souls in PURGATORY:- Our Lord dictated this prayer to St. Gertrude the Great to release 1,000 Souls from Purgatory each time it is said.

"Eternal Father, I offer Thee the Most Precious Blood of Thy Divine Son, Jesus, in union with the masses said throughout the world today, for all the holy souls in Purgatory, for sinners everywhere, for sinners in the universal church, those in my own home and within my family. Amen."