Be Grateful for Suffering

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Introduction

Empathy, care and love have born this post. Its aim isn’t to sternly and apathetically coerce you to develop a likability for pain or see suffering as innately good. Instead, it aims to encourage and inspire you to embrace suffering due to the good outcome it may have through its divine redemption. Upon reading this post, I pray that you will find joy in the downpour, strength in the struggle, and the ability to go through life with hope in God.

“Be Grateful for Suffering.”

Life won’t get easier— 

there will always be ‘bumps in the road’, 

but be grateful for the suffering. 

God will use it for your good . . . 🎶 

— T.ä

Be grateful for the storm. 

God will use a storm to show you how to rest in the midst of storms; that rest is not the absence of atmospheric turmoil, that peace is attainable in the midst of chaos. 

Rest is good, but resting during a storm has a goodness that is irreplaceable.

Be grateful for suffering, a mother of art. Be grateful for problems, an effectuate of solutions.

Be grateful for pain, an indicator that something isn’t functioning the way it was created to; that something is wrong. Be grateful for failures, avenues for learning lessons.

Be grateful for bad relational experiences; God will use them to mature you relationally by showing you how to respond, what to do and what not to do and the consequences, and what you do and don’t desire.

Be grateful for those who sin against you; God will use them to teach you to have grace for and to love other human beings in a fallen world.

Be grateful for your present struggle; when it becomes your past, it’ll testify to someone else in the future.

Be grateful for your present impossibility; when it happens, it’ll testify of the possibility of the impossible with God to someone else in the future.

Be grateful for barrenness; you will be favored more than the fruitful, and are more likely to see God’s glory in your fruition.

Be grateful for your suffering; it produces endurance, and endurance strength of character, and character hope of salvation.

Be grateful for fear; it’s an opportunity to discover in depth and grasp the truth about your safety and God’s protection.

Be grateful for weariness; it is a pass card for rest. Be grateful for hardships; they push you closer to God. 

Be grateful, not because the suffering is good, but because God will use it for your good.

Scriptures

“We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.”

‭‭Romans‬ ‭5‬:‭3‬, ‭5‬ ‭NLT‬‬

“Rejoice always, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”

‭‭1 Thessalonians‬ ‭5‬:‭16‬, ‭18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

“As for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭71‬:‭14‬ ‭NIV‬‬

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