God’s Glory and Your Little Afflictions (Sufferings)
1 John 5:4, 4:4; 2 Corinthians 4:17, 4:16 (NLT); John 11:4; Psalm 2:9 There was a time in your life when you began to question yourself and even God — why all these oppositions? why all these rejections? It just looked as if everything was against you. You thought that being a Christian would save you from a lot of stress, or maybe make everything fall perfectly into place. But instead, it seemed like the challenges only increased. You found yourself asking quietly, “Why these tears? Why does it feel like the more I pray, the harder things get?” There were nights when you lay awake wondering if God still saw you, if He still heard you. Me too I have my struggles and my own questions, I remember even asking a friend one day, “Do Christians cry?” because I honestly couldn’t understand why someone who loves God would still experience so much pain. At that point in my life — right there in the middle of confusion and tears — I began to discover something powerful. I began to realize t...