- We are not called to live for the “here and now.”
- We are to grow in faith through adversity, knowing there is an Adversary.
- Even Jesus learned obedience through suffering (cf. Heb. 5:8).
- God tests our motives by withdrawing temporarily from us (cf. 2 Chron. 32:31).
- God gets our attention via suffering and adversity (cf. Job 36:15).
- Adversity, not prosperity, builds character; it either makes us bitter or better.
- God has not promised a rose garden or a bed of roses to anyone.
- God blesses everyone in some ways, but is not obliged to bless equally; inequity isn’t necessarily injustice (cf. Psalm 145:9).
- God is unjust to no one; He will have mercy on whom He will (cf. Romans 9:15).
- Man ruined his own world by introducing sin into it.
- Jesus suffered in all ways as us yet without sin (cf. Heb. 2:18; 4:15).
- Our faith is no Pollyanna or without problems (cf. Romans 5:5).
- Our reward is in heaven, not on earth.
- God is just and His justice will not sleep.
- Justice delayed is not justice denied.
- God will make up to us for all our suffering which isn’t worthy of our reward (cf. Romans 8:18).
- It is an honor to suffer for the sake of the Name and counted worthy (cf. Acts 5:41).
- Jesus doesn’t call us to suffer anything He didn’t (cf. Heb. 4:15).
- Jesus truly understands and feels our pains (“was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief”—cf. Isaiah 53:3).
- We can know the “fellowship of suffering” filling up Christ’s sufferings (cf. Phil. 3:10)
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