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1 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | Cody Mac | 206409 | ||
To us ourselves we find peace in working for Christ, there is no greater joy. I was trying to say that because we work for Christ people will persecute us, suffering physically maybe might sound better? The times people have tried to bring me down for doing his work, it didnt make me angry but it broke my heart. I prayed for them but it saddened me to know they were not living in Christ. Maybe suffering isnt a good word to use when describing working for Christ? That might be where the confusion is because now that I think about it more, no matter what happens to us for doing what he told us to do and living out he wants us to being filled with the Holy Spirit we have an inner peace to do his work and a courage that no one who didnt walk the same road can understand. This as me wondering now. I imagine we would feel similar to Christ, we know that while he was dying on the Cross he felt nothing but love for us. It must have been like a burning fire, like a father for his children but he did suffer. Ok, so. How about this, granted I live in America so I (if this sounds accurate) have not suffered for Christ, why? Because if we are to understand suffering as Christ suffered for us perhaps it would be a physical torment, combined with a broken heart for the ones inflicting the suffering like what he felt for those that sentenced him to death. Living in America I am not hunted for believing in God like maybe if I lived in a country that was under Muslim rule and it was against the law to believe in Christ??? |
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2 | Suffering For The Sake Of Christ? | 1 Pet 4:12 | bowler | 206414 | ||
Cody Mac I hear you about suffering physicaly, being perscuted for the faith like as if we were over seas and being hunted. I see where my confusion was now about what you were really saying about kinds of suffering there are. I also see what you are saying about doing His work that we are not always suffering just because we do it. blessings abound, bowler |
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