I know suffering is exhausting and pain hurt, that is why it is called pain and suffering.

If there were an escape a person of great wisdom and insight would have done it already.

Yet, Discipleship demands such trials to compel us towards renewal.

Read Hebrews 2,

“God, for whom and through whom everything was made, chose to bring many children into glory.  And it was only right that he should make Jesus, through his suffering, a perfect leader, fit to bring them into their salvation.”   Hebrews 2:10  NLT.

The real question is what to do when life has just punched us a good one, and Job’s comforters show up at our door.

Nobody says we have to let them in.

And certainly nobody says we have to entertain them.

And, most positively, nobody says we have to believe them.

“For just as the sufferings of Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.”   2 Corinthians 1:5.

We can sort out the who’s-to-blame-for-what after we get some solid ground under our feet and a little energy back into our lives.

But we still won’t want Job’s comforters anywhere around us…

…We will want people who care.

“Compassion”
To me not to be kind
is evil of the mind.
No need to pray or preach,
Let us our children teach
with every fond caress,
Pity and gentleness:
So in the end may we
God’s Kingdom cause to be.
Poem Author – R.W. Service

In His Shadow,
~ Mary Lindow ^©

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Mary Lindow has a passion for encouraging others – all generations, careers or vocations to live expressing excellence through personal integrity, healthy accountability, and wise management of talents and skills. She’s a sought after keynote, inspirational, humorous speaker and teacher across the USA and internationally in Ministers & Spiritual leaders Conferences, and training seminars for various organizations.

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