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Subject: Help, parents need encouragement! |
Bible Note: Dear justme, You’re asking again and again for help from a source that may indeed help in some trivial manner, but nonetheless can offer only a personal experience that may or may not relate to the situation your friends are in. The fact of the matter is, the repetitious reference to scripture is the soundest advice you can offer, they being in he ministry should understand that. Who but Christ can effectually calm their worries and comfort them when they need it most. Personally, in times of suffering, we should dwell more heavily in the Word of God for therein lies the answers and the promises of comforting and strengthening when we need it most. A good point is that in our suffering, we can find Christ and pull closer, and it starts with the Word. But so many today feel there is a more viable solution outside of scripture and rather than looking to Christ, we look for other, fallible advice, in which to find comfort. There is something fundamentally wrong with that, don’t you think? The only one, who can heal us in every way, is pushed by the wayside in lieu of something else more appealing at the time, and sometimes, maybe inadvertently, keeps us from pulling closer to our Comforter. “Even in the secular spheres, contemporary Americans are mad after the theology of glory, expecting success on the job, perfect families, and either self-help remedies or government action to solve all our problems. But Americans today cannot handle suffering. We would rather die than suffer. We would rather be killed than suffer. Send for Dr. Kevorkian! But the truth of Christianity is evident in that everyone does, in fact, have problems, struggles, and sufferings. And this can be their point of contact for Christ, who on the cross not only “was wounded for our transgressions” but also “has borne our griefs” and “carried our sorrows” (Isa. 53:4–5).” - Dr. Gene Edward Veith http://www.ligonier.org/tabletalk/2008/3/1048_Glory_Versus_the_Cross For what it is worth, it is apparent how persistent you are in your search to find something to help this couple, and I truly see how desperately you would like to help and I hope you do in a way pleasing to God. But while searching, reflect on how difficult the search has been and wonder if just maybe, the search is in vain, for the answer has been presented and placed in front of you all along. And maybe, just maybe, that is the reason your search has been so difficult. Romans 15:4 For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope. “That hope which hath eternal life for its object is here proposed as the end of scripture-learning. The scripture was written that we might know what to hope for from God, and upon what grounds, and in what way. This should recommend the scripture to us that it is a special friend to Christian hope. Now the way of attaining this hope is through patience and comfort of the scripture. Patience and comfort suppose trouble and sorrow; such is the lot of the saints in this world; and, were it not so, we should have no occasion for patience and comfort. But both these befriend that hope which is the life of our souls. Patience works experience, and experience hope, which maketh not ashamed, Rom_5:3-5. The more patience we exercise under troubles the more hopefully we may look through our troubles; nothing more destructive to hope than impatience. And the comfort of the scriptures, that comfort which springs from the word of God (that is the surest and sweetest comfort) is likewise a great stay to hope, as it is an earnest in hand of the good hoped for. The Spirit, as a comforter, is the earnest of our inheritance.” - Matthew Henry Just some thoughts. Stand in His Grace, WOS |