Suffering

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How Can Suffering Shape Us for the Better?

Or does it make us worse?

 

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Suffering is a condition of life.
Job 5:7 Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward

Our modern psychological spectrum is that a poor life of suffering can make a person ungoverned, criminal and immoral however a good life can make a person spoiled and unruly, criminal and immoral.
Same result. Man is born to sorrow (Genesis 3: 17)

Only God can shape us better or worse.
Suffering is not a tool or a karma, in the cosmic mix of god or gods to shape us or our destiny
Our destiny is Genesis 3: 17-19
Our salvation is Christ our Lord
That is the beauty of the Word of God. The Bible has a corresponding objective reality

 

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How Can Suffering Shape Us for the Better?

Or does it make us worse?

Romans 5:3-5
Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

James 1:2-4 Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

In the midst of suffering remember this, for it is our anchor.

Psalm 34:19 Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

 

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Suffering is a condition of life.
Job 5:7 Man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward

Our modern psychological spectrum is that a poor life of suffering can make a person ungoverned, criminal and immoral however a good life can make a person spoiled and unruly, criminal and immoral.
Same result. Man is born to sorrow (Genesis 3: 17)

Only God can shape us better or worse.
Suffering is not a tool or a karma, in the cosmic mix of god or gods to shape us or our destiny
Our destiny is Genesis 3: 17-19
Our salvation is Christ our Lord
That is the beauty of the Word of God. The Bible has a corresponding objective reality

What tickles me is that, regardless, God puts us (by use of our own decisions among other things) through whatever we go through, to form us into what we will see "when the Sons of God are revealed." Some people seem to think that suffering is an unrelated fact of life that is only a result of sin —that suffering is a side-issue, unnecessary to God's ends in Heaven.

"The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one." (Ecclesiastes 7:8)

 

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What tickles me is that, regardless, God puts us (by use of our own decisions among other things) through whatever we go through, to form us into what we will see "when the Sons of God are revealed." Some people seem to think that suffering is an unrelated fact of life that is only a result of sin —that suffering is a side-issue, unnecessary to God's ends in Heaven.

"The end of a matter is better than the beginning, and a patient spirit is better than a proud one." (Ecclesiastes 7:8)

I have wondered, just because thinking about God and the Bible is fascinating:

What I wonder is:
Genesis 2: 17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

Yes, through Adam we know good and evil to the greater glory of God. If we only knew good then would we appreciate it?
Adam seemed to be a tra la kind of a guy. A child of God but through Adam, through the knowledge of good and evil, we have become adults who can appreciate the majesty, glory and gifts of God.

"Born to trouble" certainly captures our attention and focuses us on God.
The question is rarely "why is there good?" but "why is there evil?" is a question that has raged through the ages.
And to find any semblance of an answer to that question, man has always had to ask God.