Subject: Suffering and God's providence |
Bible Note: I missed responding to Heb 12:6 - A masochistic Christian may find it pleasurable. I do not. However, it must be viewed within it’s context, which is the “struggle against sin” (v.4) and sin involving the sins of others, persecution (v.3). Such suffering is to be taken as a given (John 16:33; 1 Pet 4:12). As such, I think, what is dealt with here is specifically persecution, which, as I have stated, is a given. Also, see the previous response I made on this verse (somewhere on this thread). |