Christians CAN REST when adversity strikes:
It’s a comforting, and challenging, theology that knows God won’t burden us beyond our capacity to carry the load I Corinthians 10:13. It’s a far greater, and empowering, theology to know God uses every weakness we have, or trouble endured, to express HIS GRACE through us II Corinthians 12:7-10. Consider the apostles:
Could the apostles, whenever afflicted with scourgings, have the same blessings as the American POW in Viet Nam and Richard Wurmbrand in Romania? No Christian is anxious to personally discover it. BUT opposed as we are today—and consider that the worst is yet to come—maybe Christians should rejoice in being:
REJOICE instead of MOANING. Instead of wondering WHY we’re despised, KNOW it’s because we’re hurting Satan’s cause, and he’s taking revenge. Knowing also that God trusts us to understand AND to persevere:
To be in such company inspires and emboldens. Let us not be weary from living in a fallen culture. Let us take courage and evangelize the seeker, admonish the critic and uplift the doubter. End Part III
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