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1 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | Mommapbs | 215820 | ||
Is the prayer of Jesus in the garden, "not My will but Yours be done" (Luke 22:42) an example of "delighting in the LORD?" Can we understand suffering in this context? I'm wondering if seeking His kingdom and His righteousness first, also goes along here? Any insight would be appreciated. | ||||||
2 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | Searcher56 | 215823 | ||
God's day to you, Mommapbs, been missing you for over 6 months, glad you are back, Are you forcing the Bible to say something you want it to? He came to do His Father's will. I believe Jesus' desire that all men would be drawn to Him (John 12:32). Am I forcing Scripture, too? Searcher |
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3 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | Mommapbs | 215824 | ||
Searcher, me? Force Scripture? What point is that? I do rather like it when I discover some consistencies though It seems to me that this passage speaks more about a process that takes place; learning to trust God so that when we experience the suffering of life, we will respond from that point of delighting and the desires of our hearts reflect God's will. In the midst of tragedy, it is easy to want revenge, to blame to dwell in anger. Are these born out of one who is "delighting in the Lord? So much of the time we are concerned about control rather than the big picture that God has in mind. His kingdom; His righteousness, His glory . . . somehow the things that we suffer, over which we have no control play a part in the grand plan of God - the redemption of man and the restoration of His creation. I think that the desire to see God as He is,as He reveals Himself to us, it is also part of delighting in Him. Any man-based thought of God, any limitation we might conjure up, is unworthy of Him.(Tozer) When we suffer loss, do we delight in God? I suspect the answer is found as we examine our desires: do we want sympathy or pity - attention; for pain to be taken away - physical or emotional? The desire to avoid pain is part of our human nature. I believe that Jesus is fleshing this out in the Garden for us; He is teaching us how to respond: this is the way, walk in it comes to mind. His final response, His desire to trust God for the outcome follows His delighting in the Father. He and the Father were One; He knows the Father perfectly. I'm still struggling with this issue, but I'm learning. A faith that isn't tested can't be trusted. Thankfully Jesus, the object of our faith can be! Blessings to you. mommapbs |
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4 | Do we understand suffering in delighting | Ps 37:4 | hopalong | 215828 | ||
His agony in the garden. He who made atonement for the sins of mankind, submitted himself in a garden of suffering, to the will of God, from which man had revolted in a garden of pleasure. Christ took with him into that part of the garden where he suffered his agony, only those who had witnessed his glory in his transfiguration. Those are best prepared to suffer with Christ, who have by faith beheld his glory. The words used denote the most entire dejection, amazement, anguish, and horror of mind; the state of one surrounded with sorrows, overwhelmed with miseries, and almost swallowed up with terror and dismay. He now began to be sorrowful, and never ceased to be so till he said, It is finished. He prayed that, if possible, the cup might pass from him. But he also showed his perfect readiness to bear the load of his sufferings; he was willing to submit to all for our redemption and salvation. According to this example of Christ, we must drink of the bitterest cup which God puts into our hands; though nature struggle, it must submit. It should be more our care to get troubles sanctified, and our hearts satisfied under them, than to get them taken away. It is well for us that our salvation is in the hand of One who neither slumbers nor sleeps. All are tempted, but we should be much afraid of entering into temptation. To be secured from this, we should watch and pray, and continually look unto the Lord to hold us up that we may be safe. Doubtless our Lord had a clear and full view of the sufferings he was to endure, yet he spoke with the greatest calmness till this time. Christ was a Surety, who undertook to be answerable for our sins. Accordingly he was made sin for us, and suffered for our sins, the Just for the unjust; and Scripture ascribes his heaviest sufferings to the hand of God. He had full knowledge of the infinite evil of sin, and of the immense extent of that guilt for which he was to atone; with awful views of the Divine justice and holiness, and the punishment deserved by the sins of men, such as no tongue can express, or mind conceive. At the same time, Christ suffered being tempted; probably horrible thoughts were suggested by Satan that tended to gloom and every dreadful conclusion: these would be the more hard to bear from his perfect holiness. And did the load of imputed guilt so weigh down the soul of Him of whom it is said, He upholdeth all things by the word of his power? into what misery then must those sink whose sins are left upon their own heads! How will those escape who neglect so great salvation? (Mt 26:47-56) (Matthew Henry. |
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