If We Suffer With Him We Shall Reign With Him

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Today I spoke from the heart about the aspect of suffering from
my own experiences past and present. There is something about
suffering, not as an evil doer, but as a Christian. I can
honestly say that my entire life has been one big affliction,
wars and endless trials. Yet woven into it are gold threads of
glory where Christ is remembered in it all. Suffering does not
leave us for the worst but for the better. Just like gold being
tried by fire is shinier and brighter than what was previously
thought to be acceptable.   


I think God  gets down into us, deeper into places where we
suffer the worst when no one can comfort us in. Like David said,
"I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that
would know me: refuge failed me; no man cared for my soul." It is
a kind of darkness that we have to adjust our eyes to see in the
dark. And that seeing is only through faith to the sufferer.
Jesus meets us there, and though our outward man feels like it is
perishing through outward fires, there is another fire burning
hot and bright within us.  When we suffer and we give God
thanks and praise His name, it is not for the hard thing that has
gotten a hold of us. Rather it blares it in the face of the enemy
many times. 


The enemy likes to pounce on those being afflicted. Though all
affliction is not of Satan, many times it is just life on earth.
Yet the enemy likes to piggy back on the worst of things that
happen to us when he can. He is what I call "an equal opportunity
destroyer." I can honestly tell you that when you begin to
magnify the Lord in the face of the enemy he cannot stand it. It
embarrasses him.  Not to mention God is working a work in
you and around you in the sight of unbelievers, the enemy and
world. God is not only at your right hand. He is in you, walking
in you, working in you and protecting you. Do not be afraid to
suffer because suffering precedes the crown, and that is how you
will learn to judge righteously and show mercy. It is how you are
learning to "rule and reign."  The Lord is your refuge and
strength, and He WILL be magnified in your suffering and you will
not go empty handed but full of the power of an endless life. You
will have your horn of oil filled to the brim and even to the
overflow. "Praise the Lord for He is good His mercy endureth
forever!"