EVERYONE IS SUFFERING=OUR HOPE
IS IN OUR GOD
Are you SUFFERING?
If so=you are in
GOOD COMPANY
Everyone SUFFERS=I'm suffering
Even CHRIST suffered as he
Suffered DEATH on the CROSS=
A criminal's death
“It is CHRIST IN YOU=
The HOPE for GLORY” Colossians 1:27
EVERY DAY of the year-
SOMEONE is CARRYINIG suffering=
An anniversary of a death-
The LOSS OF health-or
Maybe even being TAKEN advantage of
Maybe even the LOSS of a love-
Or of a job=these sufferings
Are REAL and there is NO WAY
To get away from them
“But those who SUFFER-
He DELIVERS
In their suffering
He speaks to them
In their affliction” Job 36:15
“He was despised
And REJECTED by mankind
A MAN of suffering
And familiar with pain
Like ONE
From whom
People hide their faces
He was despised-
And we HELD him
In LOW ESTEEM” Isaiah 53:3
“NOT only so
But we also GLORY
In our sufferings
Because we KNOW
That suffering produces PERSEVERANCE-
Perseverance-CHARACTER-
And character-HOPE
And HOPE does not put us
To shame
Because GOD'S LOVE
Has been POURED OUT
Into our HEARTS
Through the HOLY SPIRIT
Who has been GIVEN to us” Romans 5:3-5
OUR HOPE is
IN our God
Our hope
Is IN our Christ Jesus
Our suffering produces glory
And HOPE
What can we DO
With our sufferings?
Run away? GIVE UP?
INFLICT pain on someone else?
No-No=our Jesus CARVES out
ANOTHER WAY=he lets
Suffering PRODUCE HOPE
Hope for GLORY by
UNITING our sufferings
With those of GOD
Paul POINTS OUT=not a way
Out of suffering=but a WAY
In suffering
HOPE=our hope IS
In our God
“WHY my soul=
Are you downcast?
Who so-DISTURBED-
Within me?
PUT your HOPE in God
For I will yet PRAISE HIM
My Savior=and my GOD” Psalm 42:5
POPE FRANCIS points out=that=
WITHIN US is hope=worked out=
In the FLESH=just like Jesus
We may SUFFER=but we will
Also FIND GLORY=like Jesus
SUFFER YES?=but our HOPE=
LIVES on FOREVER in God
And in Christ Jesus
In the NAME of Jesus OUR LORD=and
HIS MOST HOLY FATHER
Robert P. Wallman
9-11-17 and 2-24-2023
Ps Inspired by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Mary Marrocco
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