There is no single answer to this question, of course, for there are indeed many reasons. Sometimes it is because we are suffering the consequences of personal sin in our lives. Sometimes we suffer for our Faith and our devotion to God. Sometimes it is simply because because we live in a sinful world and we suffer because of the consequences of that sin, though it may not be a particular personal sin of our own.
But one reason so many precious Christians suffer today is for the same reason Job suffered. satan is jealous of our devotion and dedication to God, and sets out to destroy us and to plague us as he did Job.
he sets about stealing our Joy and our Peace and filling us with fear and surrounding us with every negative our minds can conceive. he destroys marriages and families and tries to leave us a mental, physical, and Spiritual wreck.
But God is faithful and will not allow us to be tempted above anything we can stand nor will He allow us to suffer beyond our endurance. We see in the story of Job that even though satan meant to destroy and kill Job, at least in a Spiritual sense, that God rather meant it for his good.
Job remained faithful and in the end was made stronger than ever. Job was blessed more and strengthened and was in every way better off than before the attacks came. Job was purified and glorified as a result of his suffering.
But the greatest reward of all is that Job will live forever in the presence of a Loving God, and the suffering he did is no longer even a memory.
We need to remain faithful as did Job, and to trust God, as did Job, and to thank God when the suffering comes, and to ask only that He give Grace to endure. For indeed "we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
And as Paul said in Romans 8:18: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.:
Father, help Your children to understand about suffering and bless them with Grace to endure, and wisdom and strength to give You Praise and thanks through it all.
But one reason so many precious Christians suffer today is for the same reason Job suffered. satan is jealous of our devotion and dedication to God, and sets out to destroy us and to plague us as he did Job.
he sets about stealing our Joy and our Peace and filling us with fear and surrounding us with every negative our minds can conceive. he destroys marriages and families and tries to leave us a mental, physical, and Spiritual wreck.
But God is faithful and will not allow us to be tempted above anything we can stand nor will He allow us to suffer beyond our endurance. We see in the story of Job that even though satan meant to destroy and kill Job, at least in a Spiritual sense, that God rather meant it for his good.
Job remained faithful and in the end was made stronger than ever. Job was blessed more and strengthened and was in every way better off than before the attacks came. Job was purified and glorified as a result of his suffering.
But the greatest reward of all is that Job will live forever in the presence of a Loving God, and the suffering he did is no longer even a memory.
We need to remain faithful as did Job, and to trust God, as did Job, and to thank God when the suffering comes, and to ask only that He give Grace to endure. For indeed "we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
And as Paul said in Romans 8:18: "For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.:
Father, help Your children to understand about suffering and bless them with Grace to endure, and wisdom and strength to give You Praise and thanks through it all.
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