--Why Does God Allow Suffering`?

--"WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CORRECTS."

--"For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth."
--[Proverbs 3:12 / KJV]

-Please Read/ Hebrews 12:1-17] --

---Can we sense God's loving hand in the chastisements we experience? I have found today's verse to be very meaningful, having gone through numerous trials. It is a universal rule that God gives correction to those whom He truly loves, as a father does to his son. He does not discipline us to make us suffer, but He knows that through the experience we will be purified as He said in Isaiah 48:10: "Behold, I have refined thee, but not with silver; I have chosen thee in the furnace of affliction."

We can choose to become better or bitter. We need to choose to be thankful every day. Regardless of what trials and heartaches we go through, they are still less than our sins deserve. God's mercy reaches us if we are resigned to HIs testing as in Proverbs 16:6: "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged; and by the fear of the Lord men depart from evil."

When we consider our life in light of eternity, we realize that God's chastisement is for our profit as we can gather in verses nine and ten of today's Bible reading [Hebrews 12: 1-17]. Our chastisement lasts but a few days. It is like a woman's travail in childbirth when afterward she has such joy that she no longer remembers the pain.

In eternity the joy of being with our Lord Jesus will overshadow all the trials we ever faced. Everything else will appear as nothing when we stand before His throne, and all our adversities will be seen as lasting but a moment. Such will be our reward if we persevere unto the end. Press on, brothers and sisters, we're almost Home. Even so, Come Lord Jesus, Come!"~~

--'Let us reflect on Christ's response to afflictions,
that we may follow His example.'

--BSW/FB~