📚Devotionals - Suffering

SUFFERINGRosa Enid Cruz Roque​October 22, 2016
1 Peter 1:6, 7, 8

(Can Christians go through trials and Suffering?) - YES)

(Can we be happy even if we are going through trials) - YES

6. In all this you GREATLY REJOICE, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in ALL kinds of trials.

(What is the purpose of our testing?) - The testing of our faith

(What is the result of our testing?) - Praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

7. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.

(Why Christians can be happy even in suffering?) - Because we love and believe in Jesus and we know that He is in control of everything)

8. Though you have not seen Him, you love Him; and even though you do not see Him now, you believe in Him AND ARE FILLED WITH AN INEXPRESSIBLE AND GLORIOUS JOY.

1 Peter 4:12,13 and 5:10

12 Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you.

13 Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in His suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.

10 In His kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, HE will restore, support, and strengthen you, and HE will place you on a firm foundation.