Believers are not obliged to walk a thin line between right and wrong or good and evil. Believers are obligated to walk consistently in the ways of our Creator. The Levitical priesthood was in disarray after the building of the second Temple and the Creator chastises them in Malachi chapter 2. In verse 9 He tells them, “So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.” The priests failed to follow the Creator’s instructions and suffered greatly for their transgressions. They tried to walk that fine line between good and evil and they were punished for it, they had lost their identity. Don’t allow the modern culture to guide you in your walk, instead let the Creator guide you in all you do and you will not need to worry about suffering His punishment.
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Suffering Redeemed
Look around and you’ll quickly identify suffering, grief, and injustice. Maybe you’ve experienced injustice yourself. Maybe you’ve gone through difficult seasons. Or maybe you’ve experienced deep and profound grief due to loss.
Suffering rarely makes sense. We rarely have all of our questions answered within these sorts of seasons. And the hard truth is: most of our questions regarding suffering will go unanswered.
However, Romans 8:18 provides us with a perspective that can help us in seasons of suffering:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
In this verse, Paul, the author of Romans, points us to the future. All throughout Scripture, God has been working within His people to bring redemption and make things new.
We live in one reality, which includes suffering and grief. But one day, God will return and complete the work He has begun in Jesus. When God returns, Scripture says that all suffering will cease. There will be no more tears, pain, or sickness (Revelation 21:4). At that time, when we join God in heaven, we will be perfected and made whole.
Paul’s encouragement to us is this: persevere through your current season of suffering because what awaits you will be worth waiting for. When God returns and brings us into His presence, we will be perfect and made whole. At that time, we won’t think of the past suffering that we’ve endured. This is why Paul says that our present suffering cannot compare to what will be revealed in us in the future.
How often do you think about heaven? How often do you praise God for His continued work of redeeming us and making us new? Take some time to think about these things.
The more we consider the future and our union with God, the more this perspective will encourage us to endure difficult seasons of life.
DEVOTIONAL
Suffering Redeemed
Look around and you’ll quickly identify suffering, grief, and injustice. Maybe you’ve experienced injustice yourself. Maybe you’ve gone through difficult seasons. Or maybe you’ve experienced deep and profound grief due to loss.
Suffering rarely makes sense. We rarely have all of our questions answered within these sorts of seasons. And the hard truth is: most of our questions regarding suffering will go unanswered.
However, Romans 8:18 provides us with a perspective that can help us in seasons of suffering:
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
In this verse, Paul, the author of Romans, points us to the future. All throughout Scripture, God has been working within His people to bring redemption and make things new.
We live in one reality, which includes suffering and grief. But one day, God will return and complete the work He has begun in Jesus. When God returns, Scripture says that all suffering will cease. There will be no more tears, pain, or sickness (Revelation 21:4). At that time, when we join God in heaven, we will be perfected and made whole.
Paul’s encouragement to us is this: persevere through your current season of suffering because what awaits you will be worth waiting for. When God returns and brings us into His presence, we will be perfect and made whole. At that time, we won’t think of the past suffering that we’ve endured. This is why Paul says that our present suffering cannot compare to what will be revealed in us in the future.
How often do you think about heaven? How often do you praise God for His continued work of redeeming us and making us new? Take some time to think about these things.
The more we consider the future and our union with God, the more this perspective will encourage us to endure difficult seasons of life.
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"And as for me, thou upholdest me in my perfection, and settest me before thy face for ever."
Ps 41
Another thought on Christ's command to be armed: this command is one of multiple cases where Christ prophetically preempts great heresies that would be wickedly attached to his name.
Perhaps the foremost example was when he said, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets". No prophet that he had sent previously had to say, "I'm not replacing what was said before me"; yet one of the greatest heresies that would be later taught is that we can ignore, downplay, and disobey everything God said before he came to earth. It's almost like Christ knew this beforehand. ?
Similarly, no prophet Christ had sent previously needed to teach people the importance of the duty of being armed and ready to fight (except perhaps in certain cases, such as "cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood" Jer 48). The sudden emphasis Christ places on this duty was no doubt prompted by the knowledge that in future one of the great heresies would be to blasphemously associate the name of Christ with pagan concepts of blanket non-violence.
Some such ideas of pacifism no doubt were wormed into the cultural view of Christianity via the Roman Catholics, who were simply dressed up pagans from the start. But wherever such ideas came from, they are obviously utterly incompatible with Christianity.
One dramatic example of this incompatibility is when some rationalise pacifism by saying that we should not protect ourselves (or even others!) because this is a lack of faith in God's protection. This is all but straight from the mouth of Satan, who said to Christ, "Cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee", and of course the same answer is given to the pacifists as Christ gave to Satan: "It is written, Thou shalt not test the Lord thy God."
All Christians have the duty to be ready to fight as well as they can to defend others as they defend themselves (they should defend themselves), and to avenge others, as they would have others avenge them.
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