Come to God with your suffering
You can start to experience the inward renewal that the apostle Paul experienced when you come to God with your suffering. God seems far away when we suffer. You believe that He exists, but it seems as if He is too busy with everything else, or He just doesn't care. After all, God is powerful enough to end your suffering, but He hasn't.
If you start there, you'll reach a dead end pretty quickly. God hasn't promised to explain everything about what He does and what He allows. Instead, He encourages us to start with Jesus. Jesus is God the Son, and He is certainly loved by his heavenly Father. Yet Jesus also went through more suffering than anyone who ever lived!
Here we see that love and suffering can co-exist. And when you start reading the Bible and encounter people like Job, Jeremiah, and the apostle Paul, you get a sense that suffering is actually the well-worn path for God's favorites. This doesn't answer the question, Why are you doing this to me? But it cushions the blow when you know that God understands. You aren't alone. If we know anything about God, we know that He comes close to those who suffer, so keep your eyes open for Him.
Are You Sad or Lonely Tonight?
Like most people in the world today, I am sure that you have experienced sadness or loneliness at different times in your life. These two emotions go hand in hand with us as we travel through our lives here on earth. But, for some people reading this article, sadness, loneliness and depression have been with them for most of their adult lives. The emptiness that these people feel, the loneliness, the darkness, the feeling of utter despair seems to stay with them day after day, week after week, month after month and before they know it, many years have passed by. a lot of the people reading this article are living in such darkness right now, that they believe that there is no way that JESUS could possibly love them. I AM HERE TO TELL YOU THAT THE EXACT OPPOSITE is the real TRUTH. I am going to show you in the following article that when you do feel depression, sadness or loneliness that not only is JESUS allowing you to feel these emotions on purpose, but that they are actually HELPING you. Now don’t close this page so quickly, take the time to read the following article so I can prove to you that JESUS is using depression, sadness and loneliness to bring you into the kingdom of GOD. I ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE that you will feel better after reading this entire article.
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