Making Suffering Work For You

Everyone will experience pain and suffering at some point during their lifetime.

Both Christians and non-Christians experience pain and suffering.

No one escapes suffering.

At one time or another you will suffer.

It can come early in life, in the middle of your life, or at the end.

Some people suffer all their lives.

Some suffer a little, some a lot.

There are all kinds of suffering: physical pain, emotional pain, spiritual pain, worry, stress, doubt, and loneliness.

Job is the oldest book in the Bible and deals with the oldest question...

"Why do good people suffer?"

A favorite passage from the Bible is not from Job but from Romans 8:28, "and we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to his purpose."

Why we suffer is not as important as what we do about suffering when it happens.

How we handle suffering is the acid test of our Christian faith.

All things and all circumstances in life can be turned around if you pursue and do the job in life, God gave you to do.

We need not take suffering as if we have no power.

In Christ, because of our Christian faith, we have the power to deal with suffering.

We have the power of God working within us.

The power of God helps us deal a more powerful blow to suffering than suffering can deal with us.

The power of God we have to use against suffering is love.

It is the love of God that came from Christ that healed a leper and made a blind man see.

It is the love of God that will be your greatest weapon against the dark power we call suffering.

You make suffering work for you when you love in spite of the pain.