Yesterday's Sunday morning message challenged us to rethink our attitudes on suffering !
Often we pray to be freed/healed from them when in fact, scripture teaches otherwise!
...and then, while I was working on this post up came this post on Ann Voskamp's blog!
Look, but look beyond the beauty brimming from the
beaming bloom
Look, but look beyond the duty of the modest mop and
broom
Look beyond the pond that sparkles like a rhinestone in
the sun
Look, but look a little deeper than the sweep of seasons
spun
Look, but look beyond the panoramas stirring sacred sighs
Look, but look beyond the frond that lavishes the earth,
then dies
Look beyond time’s bitty bubble that does not burst to thin
air
Look, but look beyond the trouble to the One who put it
there
Look beyond the work that is more than the sweat of toil
to sod
Look beyond the hurt that sometimes drains us enough to
trust God
Look beyond want’s fondest ‘druthers’ to the Place of
faith’s reward
Look, but look beyond the surface to the grace of Christ
our Lord
© Janet Martin
And the God of all grace, who called you
to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while,
will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Pet.5:10
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment,
worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
2 Cor.4:17
that I may know him and the power of his resurrection,
and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,
Phil.3:10
