There is honor in suffering for Christ.
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Phil 1:29: For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for him, Leave a comment
Matt 23:13: But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 1 comment
Gen 41:52: he second son he named Ephraim and said, “It is because God has made me fruitful in the land of my suffering.” Leave a comment
It isn’t raining rain for you. It’s raining blessing. For, if you will but believe your Father’s Word, under that beating rain are springing up spiritual flowers of such fragrance and beauty as never before grew in that stormless, unchastened life of yours. You indeed see the rain. But do you see also the flowers? [...]
Rom 8:15-17: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together. Leave a comment
C.S. Lewis explains: “To beget is to become the father of: to create is to make. And the difference is this. When you beget, you beget something of the same kind as yourself. A man begets human babies, a beaver begets little beavers…But when you make, you make something of a different kind from yourself. [...]
