The girls and I had fun catching up with a friend and her little boy this morning. We got talking about seeing our suffering in light of God's bigger plan, but at the same time not minimising suffering. This can be hard to do at times. Sometimes it's easy to purely focus on the toughness of suffering and let it overwhelm us... and if we're not the ones going through the tough situation it's easy to say "spiritual" stuff and to quote verses to remind the other person to think about God's bigger picture... but I think the two go hand in hand... We need to recognise the tough stuff, while remembering God's bigger picture, and remembering that NOTHING can separate us from His love.
My friend shared some of what her hubby had been preaching about yesterday based on Romans 8 - that God talks about the Holy Spirit helping us in our distress and praying for us with "groanings" that cannot be expressed in words. It's OK to find it tough, to struggle. But amidst that toughness, we need to reach out to God, to let Him encourage our hearts, to ask Him to help us see life through His eyes.
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