The question that is often raised is:
Where is God? Where is God in all this mess? Where is God when I was
suffering? Where was God when I lost my job? Or my house was robbed?
Or my spouse left? Or when my children started drugs? Or when my
baby died? Where was God in all this hard times?
God is still
exactly where he has always been. He wants you to know that he has
brought you through your suffering and struggle so that you can meet
him at the Cross. He knows it is hard and he know that life has not
been easy....he does know that life has been necessary
so that you know that faith is the only way to survive.
God
intends every type of suffering and hard times to sanctify us. The
scars of life
establish hope for our future. The
scars of life
drive us to cling to sanctification. Sanctification is the work of
God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man, after the
image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and live
unto righteousness....It is at the cross that hard times come to a
DEAD END!
It is our faith
that is realized at the scar on the cross... we are
renewed by what Jesus did on the Cross. “A believer's awareness of
justification, peace, and access is made authentic in our
suffering...in our scars.”
Let's consider Romans 5
Justified through
faith:
Peace through
Jesus
Access through
grace (favor)
Rejoice in the
hope of the “glory of God” = the cross
Every
Christ-following believer should have hope because of the scars of
justification, peace, and access to grace. The suffering...the scars
call to us...the hard times come to a DEAD END at the cross because
they motivate, they produce, and they mark Christ-Followers for the
purpose of SANCTIFICATION!!!! ( the work
of God's free grace, whereby we are renewed in the whole man, after
the image of God, and are enabled more and more to die unto sin, and
live unto righteousness.)
We are working
through the long obedience in the same direction together...you know I love ya, Don
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