We continue to be mindful of the Lenten season as we fulfill our discipline and keep our focus on our Savour! We are blessed that you are with us in service today, may the Christ that we serve surround you with His Love!
“For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.” – Heb. 4:15
It’s an age-old question: “Why do the Righteous Suffer?” Down through the ages this question has been asked a multitude of times. Greater Theologians than I have pondered the question and have written pages and pages of manuscripts discussing this question. I have not a new thought on it, except to simply go to the Scriptures for the answer. The simplest explanation of Righteous is “right standing.” We have no righteousness except in Christ. When we stand in Him, it is His Righteous that is seen. This Righteousness come about when we are dedicated to serving Him, when He is first and foremost in our lives. When we realize that we must move in forgiveness on a daily basis and be mindful of our conduct and our example of Him in our life. That being said, the question comes forward: If we are doing our very best to serve the Lord, trying to follow close in His footsteps, “why is there such suffering in the saints life? Sin is the beginning source of suffering. The Righteous have suffered from the beginning of time. Consider Able: because of his faithful-ness to offer the right sacrifice, he lost his life. Job of old: It was said of Him that he was a “man perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” Yet as we read the Book of Job, we note that he suffered great financial lost, family lost, and finally great illness. Consider David, it is said he was a “man after God’s own heart.” Anointed to be King by the hand of a godly prophet, yet his life was threatened over and over, and he had to run for his life. On and on go the sufferings of the Prophets in the old Testament. In the New Testament, again there is suffering as Paul and Silas sat in stocks with their backs ripped open by the enemy’s wipe. John the Baptist was beheaded, John the Beloved banished to the Isle of Patmos. In the old testament the Israelites suffered much: And this is what God said: “Thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee… to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep His commandments, or no.” We have a Compassionate Savior who has purchased our end, it will be better then our beginning! Loving you and praying for you, Pastor
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